As the world grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, “social distancing” has become a buzzword of these strange times. Instead of stockpiling food or rushing to the hospital, authorities are saying ...

The bustle replaced the crinoline as women's underpinnings of choice in the 19th century. Grands Magasins du Louvre, 1877/Wikimedia Commons Victorian fashionistas were in search of an ideal silhouette ...

Fashion changes very quickly. What's "in" today will probably be out tomorrow. Fashions can return, sometimes slightly altered, sometimes exactly the same. Fashion trends such as jeans, animal prints, ...

Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The word crinoline typically conjures up an image of a vast, spreading, mid-19th century skirt. Think of Franz Xaver ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Author and native Iowan Marjorie Medary’s roots were squarely in the printed page. Born in Waukon in ...

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind wearing a voluminous crinoline dress What does Scarlett O’Hara, of the 1939 movie Gone With The Wind, and ladies of Punjab have in common? They ...

Brian May escorted his wife Anita Dobson on a thoroughly old-fashioned soiree last night, with the couple dressed in Victorian attire for a celebration of that era's most controversial, disastrous but ...