For many in the business world, a return to work after the winter break will mean once again donning the dreaded suit and tie. The corporate neckwear is the everyday counterpart to the traditionally ...
1. Early orientalism and the barbaresque : Luxury textiles and the beginnings of the silk trade -- Venice -- Textiles in Western Europe -- Cotton and chintz -- Charles II and the origins of the vest - ...
TORUŃ, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that fragments of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century clothing and shoes in both eastern and western styles were discovered in a layer of mulch during an ...