While fashion magazines and social media strongly influence how people dress today, there were literally fashion police in ...

Neanderthal garb may have been simpler than museums like to imagine Early modern humans dressed for ice age success – Neanderthals, not so much. An analysis of animal remains at prehistoric ...

Studies of modern hunter-gatherers also suggest that ‘ambush’ hunting practices are impaired by poor clothing because it is too chilly to lie in wait for long periods of time until prey arrives.

The only difference is that while we sweat, early modern Europeans froze. The Little Ice Age was an interval of erratic cooling that ravaged the Northern Hemisphere roughly between the 14th and ...

This fear of swallowing pins was likely influenced by their widespread nature in early modern society. Pins were used to hold together clothing, style hair, organise documents and, of course, for ...

It was disrespectful if your clothing trailed on the ground or if under garments were past the ankle in length. Image caption, A man wearing a modern day thawb (long tunic) and taqiyah (cap).