Here’s a twist you didn’t see coming: a silk dress from the 1880s has been hiding secrets for over a century. This find mixes fashion, code-breaking, and weather science, giving us a peek into history ...

Tissot’s flair for tantalizing subtexts and eye for the sumptuous details of women’s clothing made him a ... facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored paintings ...

One of these was fashion. During the Romantic era, for example, one could spot a revolutionary from the way his beard was trimmed. In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku ...