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.

A man has decided to shun modern fast fashion and instead only ever wear clothes from the 1800s. Zack Pinsent, 25, burnt his last pair of jeans when he was 14 and has dressed as a gentleman from ...

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." ...