Modern mannequins, trim as they may be, are too big to wear the clothes of 18th and 19th century women, whose waists were pinched to 14 inches by corsets, says Pike County Historical Society board ...

In the 19th century, when books were more available to the public, titles on how to improve yourself were among the most prevalent. The New York Public Library’s Art & Architecture Collection recently ...

Mila Povoroznyuk from Ukraine, who is known to her fans as your_sunny_flowers, has ditched all modern fashion trends to follow her own aesthetic that makes her look like she came back from the 19th ...

Upon entering “Votes for Women: A Visual History” at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the first thing that commands the visitor’s eye is a display of five purple capes arranged in marching ...

Like most who share her gender, Johanna Van Der Heyde enjoys fashion -- specifically dresses. But the dresses she most fancies (and fancy is a good word here) are 19th-century gowns intricately made ...

When combined, nature and manmade objects can create something beautiful. Israeli artist Sigalit Landau demonstrated just that when she submerged a nineteenth century dress in the Dead Sea for two ...

Two skeletons dressed as lady and gentleman in “the Arsenic Waltz,” Etching (1862) (courtesy Wellcome Library, London) Staying stylish in the Victorian period could be a dance of death. While ...

English School, 19th Century Portrait miniature of John Pardoe of Leyton, Essex (1787-1870), wearing a navy coat and yellow waistcoat; Portrait miniature of Charlotte Pardoe (neé Allix) (1785-1870), ...

A vintage garment from a West Chester museum inspired a costume design on the new HBO series "The Gilded Age," which follows a wealthy Pennsylvania woman who moves to New York City in the 1880s. The ...