d Culture

The enormous “Incroyable” was the ideal accessory needed by the young punks proliferating in Paris during the French Revolution.

               (Valders 1857 – 1929) American economist who in his famous “Theory of the leisure class” (1899) in his considerations dedicated to fashion and clothing stresses on one side that: “The expenditure for self display is more obviously present and is perhaps more universally practised in the matter of …

Calendar of 354 – Vatican Library – The emperor draped with the “toga Trabea, a purple ritual garment heavily embroidered: due to the figures embroidered representing gods and pagan heroes or, in the case of the Christian garments, episodes from the Sacred History, those wearing such robes were often ironically …

Between eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the gentlemen’s tie was nothing more than a muslin strip wrapped around the neck several times and tied, in this particular case into a bow.

First half of V Century – Bologna Museum – The chlamys pinned over the right shoulder, typical military cloak of classic times, was largely used during the V century especially by dignitaries. The lozenge shaped embroidered panel ( tablion ) is a symbol of eminence. The robe worn underneath is …