Costume Historian

The Topkapi Palace contains a wonderful collection of kaftans dating from the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Below are a few of the...

Walking sticks and canes Sometime in the seventeenth century walking sticks or canes became a fashionable accessory for gentlemen. It di...

This has been written because someone said in a Facebook group, I want to use lace, but I want it to be relevant to my station. This was som...

Introduction Clean, white looking, linen has long been a sign of respectability. Households at all levels of society washed linens. The gr...