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There are some clothes you hang on to, year after year, because they're durable and amazing.

Some nineteenth-century novelists predicted horrible futures, with perfectly horrible clothing to match.

Members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee adopted denim clothing for activist work. This had special significance for Black women.

The complicated notion of glamour in classic Hollywood, suggesting that stars were aloof and unknowable, was also a means to sell products.

To the designer Lucile, luxury consumerism was a virtue as wartime economies struggled.

Retail workers at a plus-size clothing store had to promote the contradictory messages that every body is beautiful and that being fat is bad.

Inventors often use animals' adaptations to the environment in applications that benefit humans, from sharky swimsuits to hedgehog-inspired helmets.

Medieval costume was a standard feature of U.S. women’s suffrage parades, often with one participant designated as Joan of Arc.

The wing-cases of gold-enameled weevils hung from necklaces; muslin gowns were embroidered with the iridescent green elytra of jewel beetles.

When did heaviness and curviness in women become connected with the idea of "savagery"? It has a lot to do with 19th-century imperialist world views.

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