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A Nice Frock for a hot summer day's garden party in the 1920s

Monday, July 20, 2026 | Karl Cole

Being an art historian, I have always considered that studying fashion history is a valuable body of knowledge to have because fashion reflects so often throughout history what is going on in the worl ...

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National Fashion Day: Art by Fernand Siméon (1884-1928 France)

Thursday, July 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

National Fashion Day evolved in 2016, the result of an internet movement of fashion designers, influencers, and independent brands to celebrate the unique creativity of everyday fashion as a foil to t ...

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Summer Is Waning: Georges Lepape

Monday, August 12, 2024 | Karl Cole

Once August is here, New Englanders are fond of saying, “well, summer’s almost over.” I prefer to resist that inclination, since summer always seems so short in Massachusetts anyway. ...

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Mid-Winter White: Francisco Xavier Gosé i Rovira

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 | Karl Cole

To celebrate the upcoming publication of our new book, Fashion Fundamentals, I’m showing you a glimpse of January fashion from one of my favorite periods in fashion history, the early 1910s. Yes ...

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Fashion of the 1910s: Charles Martin

Monday, November 10, 2008 | Karl Cole

I have always been fascinated by the evolution of fashion and how it impacts our lives, and the lives of people in the past. Having studied the history of fashion, it is quite easy for me to sometimes ...

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