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Cheyney McKnight explores the rich history of Black women’s dress, blending Afro-Victorian fashion with modern style.
Is it Victorian-core? Oregon’s Adelaide Beeman-White is winding back the clock on haute couture by dressing like she stepped out of a time machine from the late 19th century.
Fashion designers were in a romantic — and reflective — mood when they unveiled their Spring 2016 collections, many of which contained elements of Victorian fashion-like bustiers, corsets ...
Fashion Victims is presided over by one of these arsenic dresses, its color still vivid, and beguiling. And even as Emerald Green’s hazards were exposed in the 19th century, people still wanted ...
Decked out in voluminous Victorian-style dresses, complete with horn-shaped headgear, the Herero ladies of Namibia have held on tight to a piece of 19th century history.
Some Victorian fashion commentators decried the practice, though not because of the arsenic involved. One Mrs. Haweis, a writer on dress and beauty, ...
Because corsets had fallen out of fashion, it was a convenient scapegoat. It’s easy to make something foreign into a demon. In the book, people come up and scold you for wearing a corset .
How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion The deadly disease—and later efforts to control it—influenced trends for decades. Emily Mullin. May 10, 2016. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!
Romance novelists gathered at a seminar to learn how to dress—and undress—heroines in their books. Bodice ripping was complicated—ladies in the 1800s wore a dozen layers, including stockings ...