Naper Settlement presents the beauty and perils of 19th-century clothing in the new exhibit, "Infrastructure: Creating 19th Century Clothing Then and Now." Now on view through Nov. 3, 2023, ...

From the time I first threw one of my mother’s lace curtains over my head to pretend to be a bride, I’ve always loved dressing up. So when I heard about Naper Settlement’s latest exhibition, I ...

ALBANY -- Albany Institute of History & Art's new exhibit on "Well-Dressed Victorian Albany" opens Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. The exhibition of nineteenth-century Victorian fashion represents a rare ...

Inside the Pasadena Masonic Temple on a Saturday night, it’s the 19th century once more. Women in floor-length gowns that balloon out from the waist and men dressed in military tailcoats are streaming ...

I. Toward a History of Appearances -- II. Clothing's Old and New Regimes -- III. The Vestimentary Landscape of the Nineteenth Century -- IV. Traditional Trades and the Rise of Ready-Made Clothing -- V ...

Cheyney McKnight says her work as a historical interpreter and researcher led to her path as a designer. McKnight launched Not Your Momma’s History in 2014, where she develops programming and makes ...

WILLIAMSBURG — More than 240 years ago, a man named James B. Patterson stuck a paper label on the bottom of a pair of ivory-colored silk satin slippers with his handwritten name and the words, “shoes ...

The study, published in Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, reveals that a brand new purple dye went from first synthesis to commercial use in just a few years.

Bell-shaped skirts narrowed and lightweight bodices became armorlike -- those are two of the changes that occurred in American fashion over the course of the 19th century. A new CD-ROM, American ...