Fashion
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Milwaukee menswear company Milworks set to open second brick-and-mortar store
A menswear company in Milwaukee is described as a vendor of “slow fashion.” It’s set to open a new store later this summer.
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Newly opened Edessa School of Fashion in Wisconsin takes on New York Fashion Week
When Lynne Dixon-Speller taught at the University of Delaware, she took a group of 30 young women to New York, where they visited a fashion industry association. She said one […]
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Chemicals In Clothing Is Common. How Do You Mitigate Reactions?
In May, two Delta Air Lines flight attendants filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin-based clothing company Lands’ End, alleging their uniforms produced by the company cause a host of health problems, […]
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Watching RuPaul’s Drag Race In The Best Way Possible — In A Gay Bar
The streaming age means our shows are watched individually, on our own time. That makes it all the more remarkable that a television show about drag queens can bring people […]
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From High Fashion To Heather Gray T-Shirts, Choosing Your Style Is A Privilege
Avery Trufelman is the host of “Articles of Interest,” a six-part podcast from “99 Percent Invisible” about the history and meaning of some iconic items of clothing — from blue […]
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A Year Of Only Wearing Clothes You Made
Getting clothes has never been easier. You can get any article of clothing you could ever want or need online from your phone or computer, sometimes delivered the same day. […]
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How Blue Became ‘Boy’ And Pink Became ‘Girl’
Jo Paoletti is a writer and historian who explores fashion and gender in her books “Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism and the Sexual Revolution” and “Pink and Blue: Telling the […]
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Remembering ‘The Incomparable Hildegarde,’ Born This Week In 1906
The “Incomparable Hildegarde” was born this week in 1906. The Wisconsin-born singer, pianist and all-around entertainer was so famous in her lifetime that she was known only by one name. […]
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UW Faculty Pair Work To Make Cloth Out Of Solar Cells
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members — one a textile artist and the other a chemist — have teamed to create fabric solar panels. Marianne Fairbanks creates textile art and […]
