This video showcases highlights from the Victoria & Albert Museum’s fashion collection, dating from the eighteenth century to the present century. The gallery features evening wear for men and women highlighting clothing for dressing up. Also featured is a rare …

Hooves pound the earth. Sunlight flashes off a bit. Dust billows around two figures as they pass in a blur: black manes, brown flanks. Rawhide chaps, sturdy leather saddles. Locked mochillas. Black tails streaming behind.
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Westminster Abbey has commissioned conservation work on the Coronation Chair in which nearly every British monarch has been crowned since 1308. Work will be carried out in a specially-built enclosure in St George’s Chapel in …

Wrist jewelry was an essential fashion accessory in the 19th century. Period fashion plates show that decorative bracelets were worn in pairs. The matching ornaments ranged from ornately jeweled gold bracelets to beaded or embroidered …