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 ...

Most people put on their outfits every day without questioning the history of clothing as they do it. You're clearly not one of these people, since you've landed on this page! Here's a list of things ...

As a youngster, Teresa Knutson dreamed of becoming a fashion designer but discovered her talents actually lay in constructing clothing and then later in curating historical fashion. “When I was a ...

The history of clothing in a Catholic context is fascinating%E2%80%94or at least it is from the hands of Dwyer-McNulty. In this fairly dense overview of Catholic ...

Lucy Adlington’s new work of narrative nonfiction traces the fates of four red sweaters and the teenagers and young women who either made or wore them during the Holocaust. Charting the sweaters’ ...

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 ...

Every thread of Chicano fashion weaves together complex histories tied to race and class into the garment. (Montecruz Foto / Flickr) Clothing is far more than the fabric it is made from. Clothing ...