Zanzibar, a group of islands off the coast of Tanz...  ...led a collection of images of the Swahili women's fashions of yore.

Matthäus Schwarz had a passion for clothing,...  ...passion for clothing, particularly any historical fashions he could find documentation on. That wasn't much...  ...137 illustrations of Schwarz modeling clothing. A fashion diary that required so much work might seem to be...  ...black, who co-authored the...

One surefire way to make one's waist look smaller...  ...their corsets, creating a "false rump." Once the fashion took hold, they got bigger, or maybe that was jus...

You are probably familiar with Ötzi the Iceman, the Neolithic mummy found in the Alps in 1991. Every aspect of his remains have been studied extensively for clues about the culture and time period he lived in, inclu...

Before it was called a kimono, which simply means "wearing thing," the Japanese garment was called kosode. As in other places around the world, it began as a very simple body covering that could be worn by everyone. How...

You might know that the tartan patterns of Scotlan...  ...ows that show Scottish characters further back in history for not wearing the proper tartan, but Scotland's...  ...han the official registry has- and they study the history of each one. Tartan historian Peter Eslea MacDona...

For much of history , children were dressed in relatively simple garme...

These images illustrate women's fashions for every year from 1784 to 1970. Mefite Aya Hira...  ...here.No matter what era you lived in, the latest fashions tended to be set in motion by a class of celebrit...  ...iety, and eventually movie and TV stars. Women's fashions went th...

The latest movie version of The Great Gatsby came...  ...atest movie version of The Great Gatsby came out, fashion historians set us straight about flapper fashions : they did not show off one's curves the way the m...  ...e always think of fringe when we think of flapper fashion...

An embroidered altar cloth that has been in the po...  ...ches and curates Britain's royal artifacts. Their fashion historian, Eleri Lynn, has determined that the cl...  ...ough I had found the Holy Grail, the Mona Lisa of fashion . None of Elizabeth I’s dresses are known to...