Fringe and paisley might bring to mind the Summer of Love, but boho fashion has a much older (and more interesting) history ...

However, that also came to an end with the change in fashion and development of the lace machines in the early nineteenth century. Currently lacemaking traditions are being kept alive by modern lace ...

New artifacts are now on display at Hawaiian Mission Houses next to Kawaiahao Church. Among the items: western-style clothing ...

"Always Ready"—This Currier and Ives painting illustrates the clothing of the early American fire fighter. The mid-19th century gear consisted almost entirely of wool, which was used both to ...

In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element ...

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

In the 19th century, city dwellers* began to ... The traditional costumes and historical clothing, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bavaria, are shown by the costume clubs ...

By the early 19th century, rivalries among political factions in the new ... advocacy replaced commemoration. Commemorative clothing buttons, sewing boxes, and crockery gave way to expendable campaign ...

This business idea arrived in Poland just a few decades later, and one of the oldest, the élite Herse Fashion House, opened in Warsaw as early as 1868 ... emerged in the wake of fashionable ...

Early in the 11th century, a Benedictine Abbot established All Souls' Day as a day to pray for the souls of deceased family ...