Clothing and accessories worn by ordinary American women at work and at play are featured in an exhibition at New York Historical museum and in a lavishly illustrated book, published by Rizzoli.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Mary Lewis’ wedding day cape, ca. 1773, in the MHS photo studio. This was ...

Eddie Bauer, JCPenny, Wrangler—these are the labels you’ll spot in The New York Historical Society’s latest exhibition, “Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, the Smith College ...

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 ...

As a youngster, Teresa Knutson dreamed of becoming a fashion designer but discovered her talents actually lay in constructing clothing and then later in curating historical fashion. “When I was a ...

Sylvia Plath’s Girl Scouts of the United States of America Uniform (c. 1942–45), cotton chambray, vegetable-ivory nylon, metal (all photos Julie Schneider/Hyperallergic) To examine how clothing ...

The Shelburne Falls Area Women’s Club is celebrating its 100th birthday this spring, and will kick off its centennial speaker series with a talk on the history of women’s clothing with Northampton ...