This piece, which is adapted from the book Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (MIT Press), was originally ... What can we learn from the 19th-century commitment to reusability ...

Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Laura F. Edwards, a prizewinning legal historian at Princeton, explains how ordinary people participated in the ...

These technological leaps inaugurated a vastly different and connected world, just as the telephone and internal-combustion engine did in the 19th century. Moreover, the fashion world in the 1990s ...

Visitors explore how 19th-century clothing was created and worn in the past, as well as the complexities of today's recreations for the stage through a partnership with TimeLine Theatre Company ...

The illustration appeared in Punch, a British humor magazine, a few months after a worker in the fashion industry died ... This hat was made in the 19th century, and tests confirmed it still ...

Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th-century clothes and recreated the 1811 revolt Ted Scheinman; Photographs by Daniella Zalcman On the night of ...