11 November 1995 (Electronic Version 8.3 - 26 October 2001) Copyright Acknowledgements Introduction What's New Glossary of Historical Shoemaking Historical Shoes Tools and Techniques Shoe Designs and Discussions: General Research General Instructions for Making Medieval Style Shoes for Re-enactors and Others Bibliography Links MARC-CARLSON@UTULSA.EDU (LIB_IMC@CENTUM.UTULSA.EDU; (old) ...

This virtual exhibition from the Smithsonian tells how the hunting of birds for their feathers in the 1890s led to America's first conservation movement.

Men s collars are not the first thing most think of when one thinks of men s historical fashion. Never the less they were quite important in there day. They were used to help preserve shirts. Since men usually wore under shirts the places of most contact between skin and shirt was at the collar and the cuffs. By making a removable collar and cuff that could be washed separately you didn t have ...