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In my work as curatorial assistant at the Chicago History Museum I was fortunate enough to study two beautiful court presentation gowns from...

Welcome to Carnivalesque #104! There's been all sorts of fascinating research being posted on the blogosphere, so let's take a look ...

February is Black History Month! To celebrate here on The Fashion Historian, I asked my dear friend and colleague Elizabeth Way if she wou...

February is Black History Month! To celebrate here on The Fashion Historian, I asked my dear friend and colleague Elizabeth Way if she would...

Right: Image from 13th century Bestiary. British Library, Royal ms 12 F XIII f9r.   Sometimes fashion is for the dogs. Just a silly...

"The Robe she ware was lawne (white as the Swanne) Which silver Oes and Spangles over-ran That in her motion such reflexion gave,...

From Punch Magazine , 1906. http://www.punch.co.uk/ Look at this cartoon from a 1906 issue of Punch Magazine , forecasting the future of...

As a fashion historian, I find that an interesting aspect of Disney is how the animated features serve as records of the visual culture of t...

  Think Pink from Funny Face (1957) The color pink has come to represent all that is quintessentially girly. Barbie, the most famous o...

I recently read this article by Lisa Bloom, called How to Talk to Little Girls. It's a quick and interesting read but the gist of it is...

Left: Yohji Yamamoto, Spring 2012 Right: Dress, ca. 1836, The Metropolitan Museum of Art For more information about these giant...

Pomegranate illustration from Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz , 1885. Image from http://www...