Halloween costumes have come a long way. However, there just wasn't anything like trick-or-treating in past decades.

Nearly a century ago, the Russian artist Léon Bakst designed more than 300 lavish costumes for “The Sleeping Princess,” a ballet production in London so exorbitant, it left its legendary producer, ...

From left, Costume Council members Sally Enthoven, Melissa Dvorak and April Riessen at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. (Judy Foreman / Noozhawk photo) Beverley Jackson, Santa Barbara society ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles highlighting the winners of the third annual Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware ...

To borrow a phrase from Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that at the end of a long day, there’s nothing better than getting out of your work clothes. Only when Keisha Medrano gets ...

The first post was fairly drab, a simple shot of the storage space for Drexel University’s Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, published on Instagram in July of 2013. The next day, it ...

Once a month at the Elks Lodge in downtown Alameda, a large empty ballroom is transformed into a bustling party scene, with lights and decorations, and furniture shoved aside to make space for a dance ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An Indianapolis institution, which has helped clothe countless theater shows and costume parties, is closing down for good. Costumes by Margie at 38th Street and Illinois Street ...