Naper Settlement presents the beauty and perils of 19th-century clothing in the new exhibit, "Infrastructure: Creating 19th Century Clothing Then and Now." Now on view through Nov. 3, 2023, ...

From the time I first threw one of my mother’s lace curtains over my head to pretend to be a bride, I’ve always loved dressing up. So when I heard about Naper Settlement’s latest exhibition, I ...

While sitting at home one afternoon in 1861, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife, Fanny, caught fire. Her burns were so severe that she died the next day. According to her obituary, the fire had ...

Join us for the public opening of "Fashion, Feminism, and Fear: Clothing and Power in the 19th Century." In the late 19th century, some women made the boldest, most bizarre fashion choice ...

When Mary Doering inherited a small collection of 19th-century clothing from her great aunt as a teenager in the late 1960s, her desire to dress up in a beautiful striped silk dress and paisley shawl ...

For a society accustomed to the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, the images of the women from the polygamist compound in Texas are almost shocking in their understatement: Ankle-length dresses ...

The Victorian Era corset is a heavy duty clothing apparatus, capable of constricting a person's waist down to a dainty 17 inches. A slim midsection and an hourglass figure were all the rage in 19th ...

Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th-century clothes and recreated the 1811 revolt Ted Scheinman; Photographs by Daniella Zalcman On the night of ...