The diamond-encrusted brooch on your blazer. The pearl earrings brushing your shoulders. The gold buttons glint on your coat.

Throughout history, lawmakers have occupied themselves with making it easier to identify people by class. It was such a concern that there’s actually a specific name for these kinds of laws: sumptuary ...

PAULA BAXTER sees a thread running through the history of men’s fashion: dissolute or licentious elements of style acting as a goad of dress norms. “Men’s clothing over the centuries has been impacted ...

Welcume, loveli folke! Heere is thyn wey to dresse as a ladye reverant and faire. The medieval period was not a monolith, and neither were the people who lived during it. Spanning from the fall of ...