I HAVE a scrapbook, begun in 1881, to which a page of the current fashions has been added once a year ever since. A rummaging in the garret brought to light old numbers of the Englishwoman and Godey’s ...

As the world grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, “social distancing” has become a buzzword of these strange times. Instead of stockpiling food or rushing to the hospital, authorities are saying ...

20 April 1914 A costume exhibition at London’s Olympia shows interesting trends in the evolution of women’s fashions The century of costume that is being exhibited by Miss Dawson, of Chelsea, at the ...

The bustle replaced the crinoline as women's underpinnings of choice in the 19th century. Grands Magasins du Louvre, 1877/Wikimedia Commons Victorian fashionistas were in search of an ideal silhouette ...

Each year hundreds of words are added to the English language. New words with new usages add to our language. That being said, words are also dropped from use. One of those words that I am sure most ...

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Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The word crinoline typically conjures up an image of a vast, spreading, mid-19th century skirt. Think of Franz Xaver ...

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind wearing a voluminous crinoline dress What does Scarlett O’Hara, of the 1939 movie Gone With The Wind, and ladies of Punjab have in common? They ...