The most famous dolls in fashion were made for a French exhibition called “Théâtre de la Mode.” The dolls were 27.5 inches tall, their bodies hauntingly made of wire and their heads ghostly, sculpted ...

Throughout the Victorian era of the 1800s, women’s fashion dictated they be seen in public wearing a long dress, usually down to their ankles. This meant transportation could be difficult with the ...

WYMORE, Neb. (KOLN) - In 1900, some women used cabinet parlor treadle machines to sew clothes for their families. Rayma Volkmer uses hers 124 years later to make styles older than the machine itself.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I General Topics -- ch. 1 Underclothes -- ch. 2 Leisure Wear -- ch. 3 Children's vs. Women's Clothing -- pt. II Women's and Children's Street Apparel -- ch. 4 1860 ...

The ladies upstairs at the Albany Institute of History & Art are all gorgeous. They all burst with personality. Some are a little flashy, some a little sassy, some a little formal and reserved.

Here’s a device to add to your steampunk fiction: the chatelaine, a popular accessory from the 19th century. Part practicality, part fashion accessory, the chatelaine was the perfect way for women on ...

(CNN) — Ella hadn’t found a style that felt like her until a Lolita waltzed into her workplace in California’s Bay Area. Not a “Lolita” in the Nabokovian sense, the woman was an adult dressed in ...

Ivy Thompson first started experimenting with her style in middle school. She embraced the Japanese Lolita street style before, at some point in high school, deciding “it wasn’t challenging anymore.” ...