Vancouver artist Karin Jones has made a powerful installation about black history at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. It’s a braided black Victorian mourning dress made from artificial hair ...

“The Dress Diary” is an intimate record of one wardrobe — and its era. Anne Sykes’s collection of fabric remnants, lovingly preserved in an album, documents not merely her life but the Victorian era.

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This red cotton swimming costume was left behind in lost property at Hornsey Road Public Baths, Islington in about 1900. Many people in Victorian cities lived in crowded tenement buildings without ...