NEWMARKET — Throughout history, women's fashions have often been called torture devices. But costumer Astrida Schaeffer is confident that corsets, at least, were not intended to cause pain. “If it ...

WYMORE, Neb. (KOLN) - In 1900, some women used cabinet parlor treadle machines to sew clothes for their families. Rayma Volkmer uses hers 124 years later to make styles older than the machine itself.

When Deneice and John Leigh took a dream trip to Japan 10 years ago, they didn't know their love of everything Japanese would create a cultural phenomenon. The annual Anime Matsuri convention, which ...

Throughout the Victorian era of the 1800s, women’s fashion dictated they be seen in public wearing a long dress, usually down to their ankles. This meant transportation could be difficult with the ...

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From corseted waists to confidently bared bellies, fashion has always mirrored society's evolving relationship with the body. Today, midriffs are having a major moment, seen everywhere from runways ...

With all the uncertainty in the world, a year-long run-up to a nail-biting presidential election and a barrage of over-stimulating social media, we all need a little escape once in a while. Designer ...

(CNN) — Ella hadn’t found a style that felt like her until a Lolita waltzed into her workplace in California’s Bay Area. Not a “Lolita” in the Nabokovian sense, the woman was an adult dressed in ...

Here’s a device to add to your steampunk fiction: the chatelaine, a popular accessory from the 19th century. Part practicality, part fashion accessory, the chatelaine was the perfect way for women on ...

The saree is ancient and inherently Indian, but the blouse arrived much later through British influence. Victorian modesty, missionary pressure and social reform introduced stitched upper garments to ...