The average 1930s American woman bought up to 15 pairs of silk stockings a year—until, that is, women boycotted the fabric behind an essential garment.

Calico took the newly industrial world by storm. But battles over bolts of fabric shook Britain during the nineteenth century.

Women pioneers of modernism like Gertrude Stein, Frida Kahlo, Radclyffe Hall, & Djuna Barnes found cross-dressing a blessing in disguise.

In Elizabethan England, strict sumptuary regulations made sure that people dressed according to their rank in life, but many transgressed.

The intersection of religion and fashion has led to modesty in bathing suits.

what do skinny jeans and corsets have in common. as you may imagine, quite a bit.

Mourning clothes were a signal to the world that a family—really, that a woman had suffered a loss.