Soldiers of the Victorian era (and earlier ... skirt-fasteners to keep them up from the gunk. The poor, who often wore secondhand clothes, suffered from smallpox and other diseases spread by ...

Radiant diamonds, sapphires, and rubies have been among the most coveted gemstones on the planet for nearly a century. But long before their reign, a far less dazzling gem captured the hearts of ...

The historical seamstress specializes in the 1880s era ... clothes hangers that slide out. Volkmer thinks the trunk hasn’t been opened since the 1920s. Inside, she stores fans, corsets ...

Jet, a flat-black, opaque gemstone derived from wood that has experienced extreme compression over millions of years, was the haute stone throughout the Victorian era, a time when fashion and ...