InOur Mystic Road TripbyKimberly Miller·11h agoWhy Black Means So Many Different Things: Mourning, Power, Mystery, and RebellionBlack is the color of grief, elegance, authority, rebellion, and the unknown. So how did one color acquire so many seemingly contradictory…
InTeatime HistorybyBrenna Bires·Oct 7Dressed to Kill: The Costume Design of Monster: The Lizzie Borden StoryFrom picture hats to pintucks, bustle pads to hook-and-eyes, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story understands how historical clothing actually…A response icon8A response icon8
Garmentry·Oct 5Did Pockets Move Inside Clothes to Stop Pickpockets?Modern histories say yes. Those who were there say thieves followed the money in, and the first design against them I found dates from…
Rebecca Rose Peter·Oct 3Chintz History: Why Europe Banned Indian Calico, Then Copied ItHow Indian chintz sparked riots, the Calico Acts, and a 73-year French ban, before Europe copied it.
Andre Kosten·Oct 2The Great Masculine Renunciation: Why a Dark Suit Still Says Listen to MeIn 1930, the British psychologist John Carl Flügel published a book on the psychology of clothes and gave a wonderfully severe name to…
Garmentry·Oct 1What Were Sumptuary Laws? Why England Wrote Them for 267 YearsFor 267 years England legislated who could wear what, and the records show almost nobody was punished. The reason was money, not morals.
OG·Sep 28Who Is Jun Takahashi? UNDERCOVER’s Official TimelineUNDERCOVER’s own history page records 34 years: a label started at fashion school in 1990, Paris in 2002, and the Metropolitan Museum of…
Garmentry·Sep 27Muslin Disease: I Couldn’t Find the Dead WomenThe internet blames a sheer dress for killing women in 1802. A gravestone, a flu epidemic and a joke from 1797 tell a different story.
OG·Sep 25What Was Ura-Harajuku? Tokyo’s Streetwear OriginUra-Harajuku was not one look or one brand. It was a network of small shops, designers, customers and media that turned a few Harajuku…
