Pants for Protest

  For centuries, it was a taboo for European and American girls and women to wear pants, until the 1970s. Crocheting, knitting, sewing: the art of crafting your own clothes goes back ages and was very common during most of the 20th century. Most girls learned...

Less than a micromini: Cache-sexe Zulu

  What if you could tell your gender age and marital status just from your clothes? Well, in most cultures, you can. What we wear tells the rest of our communities what our exact place is within it. In much of sub-Saharan Africa, modesty norms are very different...

Fashion for Young Ladies in 1883

  Flipping through the pages of a magazine in the grocery check-out line, you would expect to see a variety of articles, including pages about the latest fashion trends. With summer vacation coming to an end in many parts of the world, magazines for teenage girls...

17 May 2017: Malnourished by Choice

There’s the paleo diet, the nut diet, the salad diet, the zero diet. So many diets. And while paying attention to your diet does benefit your health, our society is constantly telling people what to eat, or rather what not to eat. Nutrition is a huge topic....

Redesigning the high heel with rocket scientists

Many of us love high heels. They make us taller and the shoes themselves can simply be too beautiful to leave behind. It is, however, a known fact that heels are not the most comfortable of items to wear. I am glad to report that there is some good news for all high...

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