Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Frida Kahlo, aged 17, in a men's suit in a 1925 family photograph

In a black-and-white photograph five people stand in a row, with a person in a suit, tie and cane at the centre, flanked by three women and a boy.

Do you know who is in the middle of this photograph, flanked by her sisters and brother? Seventeen-year-old Frida Kahlo, in a man's suit. The year was 1925, European fashionable ladies were only just beginning to work trousers into their wardrobes, and Frida already felt perfectly at ease in such a guise

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