Sunday Best

Should you be planning to be in the Boston area in the next couple of months (I’m not, but you never know; life is an ever-changing kaleidoscope), here’s a fascinating museum show that beautifully combines art and fashion. “Fashioned by Sargent,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, looks at the work of the great portraitist John Singer Sargent alongside some of the actual clothing in those portraits, allowing the viewer to enter the art’s world and ponder its details and its choices. Here’s Sargent’s 1907 portrait “Lady Sassoon” (Aline Caroline de Rothschild), with the subject gazing confidently at the artist while swathed in a dramatic black opera cape, lined in pink and trimmed with lace — and here’s the cape, still with us today, looking like it has many stories to tell. “Fashioned by Sargent” is at the MFA in Boston through Jan. 15; it’ll then head to the Tate Britain in London, opening there Feb. 22.