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

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 ...

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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 ...

In the 1600s, Spanish women could be barred from church for showing their shoulders, fined for the size of their skirts, or ...

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Across the ages, fashion has taken wildly unexpected turns. Some trends dazzled, others verged on painful — and a few were so shocking, they left people speechless. Here are some of the most ...

NASHUA – Today Nashua hockey history will be made at Conway Arena. It’s the first day for most high school hockey and basketball teams to start tryouts and practices. But that makes it the first ...

What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...

For one, she quite literally took things back a century, turning a vintage 1950s set into something contemporary through her glittery makeup and exposed tattoos. Pulled from celebrity-favorite vintage ...

At some shows, the trend took flight in the form of sculptural hoop skirts: Meruert Tolegen sent a model down the runway in a strapless minidress that jutted out at the waist, which would make walking ...