In the basement of the theater building on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kiki Smith is walking alongside the gray lockers that sweep the perimeter of the room. "So all ...

“Fashion is the mirror of history,” King Louis XIV wrote in 17th century France. “It reflects social, economic, and political change rather than mere whimsy.” Little did he know that fashion would ...

Clothing, in our troubled modern times, is considered a fairly trivial thing. It’s incredibly easy to buy, wear, and discard without a thought. And perhaps in the face of climate change, the threat of ...

A new study is presenting archeological evidence of the oldest known bone tools used for making clothes. The tools, found in a cave in Morocco, suggest humans were skinning animals for fur to wear as ...

Clothes don't survive the way artifacts made of stone, bone and other hard materials do, so scientists have to get creative to answer this question. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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 ...

“Heavyweight” A funny, poignant podcast about life’s unfinished moments. A former bank robber wonders how to atone for his ...

In January 2021, Laura Simmons took her lifelong love of all things old and decided to share that love with Fort Worth. To walk through Simmons’ store is to take a stroll through Fort Worth history.