A surprise dead-of-night attack helped lead to US independence from the British. Now, a series of events are commemorating ...

Gustav Temple, editor of Chap, was busy distributing lapel pins and posing for photographs. “It’s getting bigger each year,” ...

In his brilliant 2023 book The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789, Robert Darnton (Armstrong’s fellow American and leading historian of 18th century ... rather than breeches, which ended ...

Heritage meets gumption at the Costume Institute’s big spring exhibition, where pathbreaking pieces join anonymous garments ...

Black dandyism is a term that originated in the early 18th century from the Atlantic diaspora ... Custom suits, knee breeches, overcoats, ties, and hats were all avenues of sartorial rebellion ...

Zach Hilty/BFA.com The dandy figure first swaggered onto the scene in Enlightenment-era Europe during the 18th century ... custom trousers, knee breeches and top hats — was a sign of prestige ...

which houses the western hemisphere's largest collection of 18th- and early 19th-Century munitions, and the US's largest assemblage of 18th-Century military uniforms. Weaponry and cultural ...

While thousands milled around the Metropolitan Museum of Art Sunday afternoon and thousands more outside of the museum’s walls are discussing what defines dandyism, the Costume Institute’s spring show ...

It has jet-black feathers on its thighs that look like fancy 18th-century breeches, and fluffy white and gray plumage on its main body. Its face has a patch of red, orange, and yellow skin like a ...