Fashions: What Women Wore

Fashion: Ancient-Medieval (19) Fashion: 19th Century (10) Fashion: 18th Century (5) Fashion: 20th Century (23)

Early English Costume

A gallery of costume from early English history.

Women and Bicycles - Fashion for the Active Woman, 1894 Style

Fashion, exercise and health come together as women adapt to the new contraption, the bicycle.

Women's Fashions of the 17th Century - Part 1

In the mid-17th century, Wenceslaus Holler published this series of engravings depicting the costume of women in England. These images record a contemporary view of the costume of women, a subject which fascinated the artist. Because these drawings were done from life subjects, they are quite valuable as resources for researching the clothing that women wore in the 17th century.

Women's Fashions of the 17th Century - Part 2

Drawings by Wenceslaus Hollar, published in the middle of the 17th century, are invaluable resources for what women were wearing at that time. This resource includes many of Hollar's illustrations in thumbnail images, clickable for much larger versions.

You Had to Be There

NY Times Magazine honors women and the millennium with a fashion show covering nearly 1000 years of women's clothing.