On a crisp overcast day in early December, Bernadette Banner is sitting on the steps of the New York Public Library. You’d think that in 2019, she would stick out in her Lady Sherlock Holmes outfit.

“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.

This vintage how-to manual "the first modern American sewing book" provided turn-of-the-century seamstresses with clear instructions for altering patterns, hand-sewing stitches, and creating ...

At a workshop at the Romance Writers of America's convention, held in New York recently, novelists gathered to learn how to dress and strip down heroines in their novels. (More: How to Undress a ...