This article caught my eye because only a couple o...  ...on a time we wanted to keep our expensive daytime clothing clean and wrinkle-free because it was difficult a...  ...hem. An essay at Etsy explains more about the way clothing used to be. In 1900, a new dress could cost a cou...  ...store dress. As clothe...

If you like to wear your heart on your sleeve, but your heart just happens to rock a set of taped up glasses and a bow tie, then these fashion pieces are guaranteed to compliment your geekiest sensitivities. I’m su...

Did people actually wear collars like this, or was it a special accessory to wear while sitting for a portrait? Minnesotastan got curious and researched Elizabethan ruffs. They served a purpose: keeping "ring around the...

A study of lice genes is helping scientists to pin...  ...oint the era in history when humans began to wear clothing . Really. The key to the study by David Reed and...  ...f and become a separate group once they had human clothing in which to live. The genomes of the two kinds o...  ...ndreds of thousands of...

This Italian photo site documents the fashions of the 1960s and '70s -miniskirts, bellbottoms, platform shoes, hot pants, go-go boots, and that hair! You'll see some famous faces among the models. Elements of these s...

Steven M. Johnson comes up with all sorts of wacky inventions in his weekly Museum of Possibilities posts, but something's missing from his strange gadgets: names. Can you come up with a name for this one? The commenter...

The Tumblr blog Muslims Wearing Things was launched as a reaction to former NPR analyst Juan Willams saying he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on planes. Looking through the pictures of the things Muslims...

The Estonian start-up company Fits.me has designed...  ...for you. The design is being marketed to online clothing retailers because they can't offer customers the...  ...photo corresponding to your precise body type and clothing

You know what they say -when you find a look that works, stick with it. However, if you look back far enough, you'll see that he's tried other styles as well. Link -via J-Walk Blog...

It has always been my habit to give an idea – any idea – a fighting chance to percolate in my mind for a while, letting it have full reign to explore its own possibilities. The flip side of this liberal and u...