Smuggled in the Bustle: an interview with Hind Abdul-Jabbar

To avoid paying exorbitant import taxes on their luxury items brought back from Europe, American women during the 19th century frequently engaged in ‘fashionable smuggling.’ Here a woman has enlisted her male relatives to wear her recent dress purchases through customs in an attempt to evade duty fees. “McKinley and the Fashions” (detail), Puck, September 23, 1891.