What was school like 100 years ago? A lot harder, and dirtier. Here's how kids learned in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This season of the HBO series depicts Black bourgeois communities in a compelling light. Denée Benton and Phylicia Rashad represent two generations and class levels through their clothing.

A lawsuit against David Geffen mentions a website where hypergamy — dating above your station — is celebrated. But the word ...

Tucked away in Southeast Portland’s vibrant shopping district, Magpie Vintage stands as a sartorial time machine that locals whisper about and savvy fashionistas make pilgrimages to experience. The ...

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The elegance of the Edwardian age, from classical painting to dazzling tiaras and Fabergé figurines, is on view at Buckingham ...

In the early 1800s, the first swimsuits for women were known as “bathing costumes” — modest, full-coverage garments designed ...

Girls' tomato clubs in the early 20th century were an important educational and financial opportunity for women in the South.

Nine new rooms at the Fashion Museum in Palazzo Pitti offer a journey through the 20th century through forty designer dresses, many previously unseen, in dialogue with pictorial works of the century.

The mid-20th-century designer put common sense back in American womenswear.

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion ...

By the 1980s, beach culture was thriving and tanning had become a full-blown phenomenon. People found their own (now beyond-the-pale) methods for achieving a tan line from their trending high-cut ...