What we wear every day has meaning--just ask any host of all those reality shows about fashion, makeovers, and style. "Fashion in the Middle Ages," a manuscript exhibit at the Getty Center opening ...

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In the Middle Ages, color wasn’t just fashion—it was status, symbolism, and control. Every shade told a story, from royal purple to deadly yellow.

Louise D'Arcens receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Middle Ages might seem the last place feminists would go to seek inspiration. But from around the 1850s advocates for dress ...

Few can deny that the various burkini bans put in place by towns on the French Riviera this summer have become symbolic of the country's struggle over "secular identity." The bans have seemed ...

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