The Museum of Fashion in Paris contains clothing and professional uniforms from 1735 to the present day.

The fashion exhibits are displayed in rotation and usually in two major exhibitions each year. These shows can highlight a particular couturier's career or explore a single theme.

The 'Droste effect' is a Dutch term for a specific kind of recursive picture[1], one that in heraldry is termed mise en abyme. An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever, but practically it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration exponentially reduces the picture's size.

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Our chess set from India

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My wife's Grandfathers pocket watch .

Droste effect of detail at the Chi Lin Nunnery in Hong Kong, China.

An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever, but practically it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration exponentially reduces the picture's size.