Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: String Skirt

Women have worn and still wear these aprons to communicate information about their lives and marital status (the exact information implied varies from group to group).

Your costume history plus anthropological note for the day! Oh, and of course, this isn't a 8000 year old garment ( Read more... )

Ancient Egyptian Costumes

Picture of two dresses from Ancient Egypt.
Someone so long ago, wore these outfits.
You can see where the Regency era was influenced by the ancient style!

Amazing.

That's your costume history for the day!