Fashion, clothing, textiles, accessories, and costume have served a critical role in protest movements throughout history. Clothing often offers the most basic opportunity for groups to rebel: a ...

Clothing, in our troubled modern times, is considered a fairly trivial thing. It’s incredibly easy to buy, wear, and discard without a thought. And perhaps in the face of climate change, the threat of ...

Menswear expert Derek Guy talks to Jacobin about where Western men’s clothing traditions came from, how they have evolved, and how they're being continually reinterpreted. Perhaps no other industry is ...

Riveted: The History of Jeans reveals the fascinating and surprising story of this iconic American garment. At any given moment, half the people on the planet are wearing them. They have become a ...

"Only the Clothes on Her Back tells the history of law and commerce in the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War through textiles and the legal principles associated with them. Those ...

As a youngster, Teresa Knutson dreamed of becoming a fashion designer but discovered her talents actually lay in constructing clothing and then later in curating historical fashion. “When I was a ...

Person holding shopping bags over clothing waste dumping site. It’s no secret that fast fashion imports from international brands like H&M, Zara, and Shein have come to dominate Americans’ wardrobes.

“It’s been said that palaka is the denim of Hawaiʻi. It’s ubiquitous,” Reilly said. “It crosses over ethnic lines, now it ...

Riveted: The History of Jeans reveals the fascinating and surprising story of this iconic American garment. At any given moment, half the people on the planet are wearing them. They have become a ...