We are taught to read history through documents: speeches, treaties, the papers of presidents. But a dress is a document too, and often a more honest one. What a woman wore records who she really. You can read a life in a hemline. The weight of a fabric tells you whether she worked; a mended elbow, what she could afford; a waistline, what her body was expected to be. Women’s clothing has too often been treated as trivial, precisely because it belonged to women. This exhibition treats it as evidence. Walk the galleries in order. You will see women’s freedom grow.