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 ...

POPSUGAR: You're known for your work on period pieces, so how was this Victorian-era film different ... When I first read "Poor Things," I thought, "Oh, we'll recycle loads of clothes.

Some films tell stories in so many dimensions that they merit multiple viewings, just to absorb it all. “Poor Things,” the fantasia from director Yorgos Lanthimos, is one of those. The film ...

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 ...

Strasdin’s detailed explication of Victorian-era dress is sure to delight the fashion history enthusiast, but “The Dress Diary” has much wider appeal. It is a work of sociology, and a ...

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 ...