Every petticoat tells a story. Victorian women’s fashion is as scholarly as a history book. And that’s part of what keeps Melissa Lopez entranced. The high-collared dresses, corsets, bustle cages, ...
“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.