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The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play,...

On the evening of Monday, May 2, as rain pelted down from the sky (as has been its wont in prior years), guests scampered out of their cars, armored vehicles and trucks-no cabs, thank you!-and up toward the entrance of the Metropolitan Museum for the...

FRENCH MAID A white apron and feather duster does not a costume make, but women everywhere use Halloween as an excuse to dress like a slut. If the apple of your eye comes to the party naked as Eve, she’s desperate for some- one...

A top immigration official acknowledged on Thursday that she should not have praised an employee who wore an escaped prisoner costume to an agency event on Halloween.Julie Myers, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, offered the mea culpa in a letter to Sen. Claire McCaskill,...

A Christian legal group has sued a school district on behalf of a 10-year-old boy who claims his rights to religion and free speech were violated when he was not allowed to wear a Jesus costume during Halloween activities.The complaint, filed in federal court Tuesday...

The Middle Ages first brought about the perception of fashion and gave birth to the tailoring industry. Medieval trends brought new styles, fabrics, and materials that transformed clothing beyond the rough, shapeless forms that merely fulfilled the needs of warmth and protection. Men's clothing of the time included trousers, leggings or garters, shoes, tunics, and hoods, while women's clothing included jewelry, beautiful flowing dresses, sometimes an underdress, and very elaborate headwear.

Descriptions of women's clothing during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras of the European Renaissance. Clothes customs were tied to the social class: the royal family and noblewomen wore elaborate gowns, for example; women in rich families favored pendants and jewels; and working people wore simple clothes.