"Infrastructure" features dozens of garments and accessories from the Naperville Heritage Society and Winnetka Historical Society's collections. Visitors explore how 19th-century clothing was ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Eddie Bauer, JCPenny, Wrangler—these are the labels you’ll spot in The New York Historical Society ... appealing housework-wear of the 19th-century and 1940s woman transform into a flirtatious ...

working on “The Gilded Age” was a “fantastic” history lesson on the beginnings of contemporary fashion. As she researched the styles of late 19th-century New York through paintings and ...