Five Fun Facts About Fashion in the 1800s. ... held especially true in the late 19th century. With the near-simultaneous rise of the department store and the birth of ready-to-wear clothing, ...

Bay Village Historical Society President Cathy Flament models a plaid taffeta skirt from the 1880s and a hand-decorated, modified pork-pie hat in the group's recent historical fashion show.

Life at a late 1800s frontier post, like the Vancouver Barracks, was predictable, tedious, routine and rarely seasoned with excitement. Daily duties rarely varied. Soldiers drilled, stood guard duty a ...

For a society accustomed to the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, the images of the women from the polygamist compound in Texas are almost shocking in their understatement: ankle-length ...

A dynamic period of women’s fashion across the U.S. and Britain will be detailed May 15, 7 p.m., at Simpson County’s historic Sandford Inn — held by area historian Susan Lyons Hughes. The ...

Dressed in period clothing, Kingery spent Monday "walking in her character's shoes." "I've learned a lot of important stuff," she said. "And how hard it was for people to live in the late 1800s." ...