Editor’s Note: CNN’s Eye On series takes you to a different country each month. In October we visit Namibia highlighting the country’s best and brightest people, plus framing its pressing issues in a ...
WYMORE, Neb. (KOLN) - In 1900, some women used cabinet parlor treadle machines to sew clothes for their families. Rayma Volkmer uses hers 124 years later to make styles older than the machine itself.
Throughout the Victorian era of the 1800s, women’s fashion dictated they be seen in public wearing a long dress, usually down to their ankles. This meant transportation could be difficult with the ...
When Deneice and John Leigh took a dream trip to Japan 10 years ago, they didn't know their love of everything Japanese would create a cultural phenomenon. The annual Anime Matsuri convention, which ...
The Victorian City: Images and Realities edited by HJ Dyos and Michael Woolf (Routledge, 1973) Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London by Lynda Nead (Yale University ...
Đàm Tướng Quân 'Beautiful' makeup and fashion are changing with the times, and they are greatly influenced by the background of the times, such as the trend of easy-to-move pants styles during the war ...
With all the uncertainty in the world, a year-long run-up to a nail-biting presidential election and a barrage of over-stimulating social media, we all need a little escape once in a while. Designer ...
A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: The epic German poem, The Nibelung, that inspired Wagner, Victorian fashion and hair styles, and poet Jackie Kay’s ...
What is #prairiecore? Addison Nugent explores why fashion can’t get enough of the ruffles and romance of Victoriana – and its US equivalent. From its beginning, Instagram was dominated by a certain ...
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How Victorian women hid ‘shameful’ baby bumps, a sign of ‘having done the deed’; caused serious health concerns
From corseted waists to confidently bared bellies, fashion has always mirrored society's evolving relationship with the body. Today, midriffs are having a major moment, seen everywhere from runways ...
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