Since ancient times, attention to appearance was for young women an important issue, because it had large influence on their future. Girls that was neat, comely and well dressed had a much better chance to fulfill their ...

With the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 the posthumous paintings previously made for the kings and the aristocracy were ousted by photography. As cameras became better and photos cheaper the popular interest in ...

The history of Polish photography started almost at the same time as in other European countries, so at the beginning of the forties of the XIXth century. Gdańsk was second city after Warsaw on a scale of Polish lands in ...

In the article I focused on the development of clocks over the centuries. The biggest boom of clocks was in the nineteenth century, what was the result of the technological revolution. The use of machines for the production ...

Fashion for pilgrimages in Warmia for centuries has been widely popularized. In this way individuals in their communities could stand out, impress others, and above all, cater to the many spiritual needs. Fashion is usually ...

Making a stained glass belongs to the artistic works which we have not paid much attention to in such fields of literature as esthetics, theory and history of the art. In the context of fashion, the spin of the stained ...

Magnetism and hypnosis have been well known since antiquity. These two phenomena became more popular in XVIIIth and XIXth century thanks to Franz Anton Mesmer. He was a German doctor who created a theory of animal magnetism ...

The aim of the paper is not a fashion but clothes of women-workers since they were functioning outside the sphere of fashion. Research on social changes may be significantly enriched with such investigations. Clothes have ...

In the paper we present various forms of charity in XIXth century and their criticism. In fact XIXth century is often called the century of philanthropy but it is reasonable to raise the question of the reasons for it. ...

In the end of the XIXth century became a new way of spending leisure time e.g. a bicycling. Typical women cyclist’s suit had to contain following parts: jacket, T-shirt, and trousers. Every women cyclist had in yourself ...