By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats
As America's first historical society, the Massachusetts Historical Society has collected family materials since 1791, including long-cherished pieces of clothi
The valuing of old clothes as “vintage” and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand consumption or the wearing of new old-fashio