They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

Worcester, Mass., resident Hannah Olech uses pins and needles instead of paints and brushes to "time travel" with her handmade clothes. After majoring in biology and biochemistry in college, Olech ...

Charles Goodyear had vulcanized natural rubber in the 1850s to make tires, and he sold the use of the patent to Hiram Hutchinson in 1853 to use for boots. They became a fashion statement for a few ...

And as scientists gained greater understanding of the disease and how it was spread, the disease continued to keep its hold on fashion. “Between 1780 and 1850, there is an increasing ...