Category Archives: History

Women’s Fashion from 1800s to 1950s, A History of Shaping the Body, York Castle Museums

Originally posted 2017-09-10 08:47:05. For centuries women’s clothing has exaggerated body shape to fashionable extremes. This collections shows body-shaping fashions from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, using objects from York Castle Museum’s Costume and Textiles collection. Mass production of sewing machines in the 1850s as well as the advent…

Historical reenactment and Live-action roleplaying game in Travel

Originally posted 2017-08-26 15:29:35. Reenactment is an activity where people recreate or commemorate historical epochs and events through dramatization, costumes, props, staging, and/or authentic environments. Live-action roleplaying, shortened LARP, can have contemporary or fictional settings, but is often based on historical periods. Here people are improvising and immersing in their…