Victorian women went for the layered look, according to Spiess. "They’d start with a chemise and bloomers, followed by a corset and corset cover and then three to five slips,” said Spiess. After the ...

(CNN) — Ella hadn’t found a style that felt like her until a Lolita waltzed into her workplace in California’s Bay Area. Not a “Lolita” in the Nabokovian sense, the woman was an adult dressed in ...

The way this exhibition will be read and received is sure to be impacted by current events—Sarah Burton’s exit from Alexander McQueen drew attention to the lack of female creative leads in luxury ...

The first bride in the family who wore the dress — Mary Lowry Warren, Abigail's great-great-grandmother — got married in 1895 ...

In a small room, an unoccupied wooden coffin rests in the center. In another, a buttoned-up black wedding dress is paired with a dark, lace mourning veil. On a table lays wreaths of hair and lit ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz - Correspondent Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), ...