Articles of Interest

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It all starts in the kids’ department.

To explore how plaid proliferated, we’ve got to go to Scotland.

Who can walk through the world comfortably and securely?

An authentic aloha shirt has an interesting story to tell.

You can learn a lot from observing an old pair of blue jeans.

Groups of people who historically haven’t had a voice have expressed themselves on their bodies, through their style, their hair, their tattoos, their piercings and what they wear.

In the wake of World War II, the government of France commissioned its most prominent designers to create a collection of miniature fashion dolls

Brands hold immense sway over both consumers and the American legal system. Few know this as well as Dapper Dan.

Perfume can be a key to a whole olfactory world

Formal menswear can be traced back to American Revolution, classical statuary, and one particular bloke bopping around downtown London way back in the 1770s.

Diamonds represent value, in all its multiple meanings: values, as in ethics, and value as in actual price. But what are these rocks actually worth?

The symbolism and weight of the white wedding dress

Articles of Interest Season 3 is coming. It's entirely devoted to one topic

"The only real trend is trendiness itself"

This is where Ivy started

Ivy starts to spread

Enter Ralph

The rise of The Preppy

Ivy grows on the street

The finale

Why can't we get dressed like Cher does?

The conundrum of the ballet shoe

How do we know how our clothes are made?

What a fake body can tell us about real clothes

Some good style advice

What's worn in an absence of choice

A determined quest to save sartorial history

How a designer worked behind the iron curtain

What is clothing without cloth?

A pattern of migration

Hail the wale

Why they get the cold shoulder

More more more!

Should we grow our own sweaters?

A walk in someone else's footsteps

To live, to dye

Why we wear clothes, and why we're so afraid to take them off

A matter of faith

When did celebrities stop dressing themselves?

Men of the Cloth