Did you also think that the costumes in the movies are historically accurate? It turns out that even the most iconic movies have mistakes: sometimes objects that simply could not have existed at the ...

The first post was fairly drab, a simple shot of the storage space for Drexel University’s Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, published on Instagram in July of 2013. The next day, it ...

The mission of the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection is to educate and inspire through the documentation, exhibition, and preservation of historic costume. The Drexel Institute of Art, ...

March 26, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When my son was in second grade, his teacher loved to assign projects where the kids had to dress up as ...

Once a month at the Elks Lodge in downtown Alameda, a large empty ballroom is transformed into a bustling party scene, with lights and decorations, and furniture shoved aside to make space for a dance ...

The Brooklyn Museum exhibition pairs costume designs from the popular Netflix shows with related objects from its collection. The hall is populated by mannequins dressed in the most memorable couture ...

Research may be the cornerstone of any historically accurate project, but it’s only when artisans know the rules that they can break them. The costume designers behind some of this year’s period films ...

In this time of our confinement, fans of period clothing are having a lot of fun on social media. By Caitlin Kelly It’s a world of corsets, stays and chemises. Of weskits, bum rolls, breeches and hoop ...