Women in Ties Have Agitated Fashion for Centuries. Why Does a Humble Strip of Fabric Hold So Much Power?
Paris, women needed permission from the police to wear a tie. The history of a revolutionary accessory—from ancient Rome to ...
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The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workers
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...
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Out of the Attic: Alexandria women and D.C.’s Central High School
The student biographies included Johnson and Marks as a cheerful basketball player and a sweet-mannered Alexandrian maiden, respectively. These four young Alexandria women were among the first ...
Dressing Like an Artist? There’s an Art to That.
An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the ...
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Southport maritime museum to explore 18th-century fashion
Visitors will have the opportunity to interact with a professional seamstress who will draft a gown in a day and learn about how clothing defined status, gender, and occupation.
When Does Fashion Become Vintage? A Guide to Understanding Vintage, Archival, and Antique Fashion
Vintage fashion is everywhere, but amid the obsession, the question remains: what, precisely, makes something vintage?
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Stoddard exhibit Capture Life on the Porch
A new exhibit in the Stoddard Gallery at the Chapman Museum highlights how leisure, health, and tourism in the Adirondacks have been shaped by porches and piazzas. On view now until May 11 ...
Rockford's Anna Wypych wins Miss Basketball 2025
Rockford guard Anna Wypych has been named the 2025 Miss Basketball. (March 17, 2025) Over 5,000 San Diego Gas & Electric ...
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The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S.
It was the culmination of a century of agitation for women’s suffrage ... Morrow of Kentucky signs his state's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ...
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Nineteenth Century Jeffersonian Democrats
The premise of all this buffoonery is that today’s Democratic Party can be traced back in an unbroken line to the Democratic Party of the nineteenth century, and that today’s Democrats can therefore ...
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'Africa Fashion' brings diverse designs to Field Museum: 'You're going to leave with some inspiration'
The exhibition also includes information about the vanguards of the 20th century fashion scene. Visitors will read stories about designers including Shade Thomas-Fahn, of Lagos, Kofi Ansah ...
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The Queen's Watermen
Until the middle of the nineteenth century the Sovereign regularly travelled on the river Thames, either on State occasions or between the Royal Palaces of Windsor, Westminster, Hampton Court, ...