In the basement of the theater building on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kiki Smith is walking alongside the gray lockers that sweep the perimeter of the room. "So all ...

What if the key to understanding when humans first began wearing clothes isn’t found in ancient artifacts or fossils, but in lice? This unusual theory has emerged from the research of David Reed, an ...

“Fashion is the mirror of history,” King Louis XIV wrote in 17th century France. “It reflects social, economic, and political change rather than mere whimsy.” Little did he know that fashion would ...

The history of capitalism has, in a sense, always been the history of clothes. Derek Guy is perhaps the most prominent contemporary commentator on traditional men’s clothing — where it came from, what ...

Clothes don't survive the way artifacts made of stone, bone and other hard materials do, so scientists have to get creative to answer this question. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Clothing, in our troubled modern times, is considered a fairly trivial thing. It’s incredibly easy to buy, wear, and discard without a thought. And perhaps in the face of climate change, the threat of ...

In January 2021, Laura Simmons took her lifelong love of all things old and decided to share that love with Fort Worth. To walk through Simmons’ store is to take a stroll through Fort Worth history.