WETHERSFIELD — You would never guess it, but the tricorn hat straight out of a John Trumbull Revolutionary War painting is about 250 years old. The classic three-sided chapeau of felted fur — a type ...

Behringer-Crawford Museum is bringing fashion history beyond the exhibit gallery with a series of interactive workshops and ...

Walking into the Textiles and Clothing Museum at Iowa State University is like traveling through history and visiting another culture all at the same time. In celebration of its fifth anniversary, the ...

An exhibition that turns garments inside out to show their structure, Shape Up: Case Studies in Fashion Making opens the UC Davis Design Museum’s 2019-2020 season on Sept. 23. Showcasing ethnic ...

Over the last two years, Cayuga Museum staff and volunteers completed a comprehensive inventory of the museum’s large clothing collection, which was the inspiration for the "Fabrication: Telling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York Fashion Week ended weeks ago, but that did not deter the Women’s History Museum from staging a runway show Wednesday ...

Chipmunks that wandered St. Louis in the 1880s are preserved in a crazy quilt that is among a trove of local artifacts maintained in a basement on South Skinker Boulevard. "This is a very colorful ...

Janett Galloway can't recall how long her grandmother hid her ancestors' clothing in that storage chest. "My grandmother Mary had that chest for as long as I can remember," Galloway, of Macon, Georgia ...

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Jackie Purdy poses with a collection of vintage hats once owned by the late Carol Cope of Kearney, Nebraska. Purdy visits the museum at least once a week. Purdy’s mother made this blue skirt and ...