Dressed to impress

The piece I’d never part with

There can’t be many shops that have received the distinction of being commemorated by the Royal Mint striking a coin in its honour. Not just any coin, but a £5 model, either in plain gold at £3,965, o

When skirts, tights and frills were the hallmarks of masculinity

Forget the standard double: country-house sleeping arrangements have undergone all sorts of intriguing (and eyebrow-raising) shifts throughout history, observes Melanie Cable-Alexander

Fashion is gloriously pleasurable to describe but fiendishly difficult to analyse. It is a cultural phenomenon that tugs in two directions—on the one hand, we (and to a greater or lesser extent almost

That threatened thrones