The “pollera,” a bell skirt with layered petticoats, is the traditional dress of Indigenous women in Bolivia’s highlands ...

The mourners had taken their seats. Many were dressed in black. Others wore veils and large hoop skirts, reminiscent of Victorian-era fashion.When the clock struck 1:01 p.m. (a time, organisers said, ...

One by one, they gave remarks at the event, including interpretations of a jealous Mary Todd Lincoln, a pompous George Washington and a frightened Thomas Jefferson, who was scared that the nickel with ...

There is a hoop skirt manufactory in this city which weekly turns out 24,000 ladies' skirts, employing for that purpose 500 hands, 180 sewing machines, and not less than a tun of steel. Hoop skirt ...

Controversy over shifting hemlines proves that women in sports have long been scrutinized for what they wear. Women have been wearing tennis skirts for about as long as they've been playing the ...

Arriving from Broadway with much fanfare, Cole Escola’s play about Mary Todd Lincoln is loaded with obvious jokes and squanders the talents of its cast ...