Garments at the turn of the century

I was impressed by these images of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island between 1906-1914. Notice the many folds, and the operations of those folds - the ways in which the fold activates the topology of a proposition, leaving the garment always in excess of itself. Where the cuff is most noticeable, it seems to cut things off, to hold the garment to itself, to perform an edging. But of course, as so many of you have pointed out, there is also a transversality. Note the Danish woman's headpiece, both cuff and fold, strangely reminiscent of Mayra's cuffs.