But in fact the fit pic hearkens back to an ancient and venerable tradition, invented at literally the dawn of modernity by a swagged out father and son duo living in 16th century Augsburg Germany.

And the Little Ice Age also altered the history of fashion. As the cold ramped up in the 16th century, fashion championed warmer styles: Heavy drapery, multiple layers and sleeves that trailed on ...

Silenced by the vizard “And make our faces vizards to our hearts/Disguising what they are” – Macbeth One of the most bizarre accessories in 16th-century fashion was the vizard, an oval ...

TORUŃ, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that fragments of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century clothing and shoes in both eastern and western styles were discovered in a layer of mulch during an ...

The painting depicts the mythological figures of Apollo and Venus, the goddess of love, along with a cherub who may be her son Cupid.

A c. 1545 portrait of Catherine Parr. Wikimedia Commons Women’s clothing also had to sustain temperature fluctuations that tended to range colder during the Little Ice Age. In a 16th-century ...