Where did the tradition come from?" According to Belle Lingerie, women didn’t wear underwear until the turn of the 19th ...

Few items of clothing are more entwined with the evolution of fashion and the cultural status of women than the bra.

By the 19th century, it had become more than a popular form of entertainment ... And so, rye, a Christmas tree, a fight, clean underwear and spikes of wheat denote ‘something good’, while planks, peas ...

Where did the tradition come from?" According to Belle Lingerie, women didn't start wearing underwear until the 19th century. Before that, they wore undergarments known as drawers, which ...

Underwear as outerwear is nothing new on the runway, but Kamali’s 19th-century take cheekily reinvents the concept in a more modern and personal way. Pantaloons, also known as pantalettes ...

“The miners used to think that if they put the snakes in their long underwear, it would cure them,” Di Silvestro ... An old hand-tinted photograph of Meadows shows her hair cut short by 19th-century ...

There’s an air of late-19th century mystery to the high white collar ... or other see-through fabrics with no, or very little, underwear. But from all indications there was one.

IN PICTURES With the women's spring/summer 2025 fashion weeks behind us, it's now time to take stock of the trends unveiled ...

The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field.

Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...

This all changed in the late 19th century, when built-in cups were introduced ... Suddenly, bras went from underwear to fashion statements, forever changing the way we think about lingerie to ...