Tamika Burton has dressed up as Tina Turner, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Coleman, and Joe Louis, among other African American trailblazers. Each February, Tamika Burton, a Spanish teacher at Collegium ...

From left, Costume Council members Sally Enthoven, Melissa Dvorak and April Riessen at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. (Judy Foreman / Noozhawk photo) Beverley Jackson, Santa Barbara society ...

Whether you’re gearing up for the Renaissance fair, Halloween, or you just feel like putting on a play, this massive collection of free costume patterns will help you out. At her blog, ...

Sheila Bohrer, a historical costume aficionado, spends her days surrounded by bolts of fabric and patterns, working furiously to make her vision come to life. After hours of laboring over the details ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles highlighting the winners of the third annual Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware ...

The first post was fairly drab, a simple shot of the storage space for Drexel University’s Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, published on Instagram in July of 2013. The next day, it ...

Did you also think that the costumes in the movies are historically accurate? It turns out that even the most iconic movies have mistakes: sometimes objects that simply could not have existed at the ...

To borrow a phrase from Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that at the end of a long day, there’s nothing better than getting out of your work clothes. Only when Keisha Medrano gets ...

The best thing about watching historical dramas is drooling over the outfits! Nothing that gets me more hyped than seeing stills from an upcoming historical with characters in their stunning robes and ...