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This aerial view of a rice field in Inakadate, Japan, Aomori prefecture, depicts an image of Marilyn Monroe wearing the iconic dress from The Seven-Year Itch. Known as Tanbo art, the image is created out of different-colored rice plants.

This newspaper article from 1916 documents the new and increasing stigma around fat bodies. As ready-to-wear clothes replaced hand-sewn clothing thanks to standardized sizing, people with larger bodies were locked out of this progress due to…

Ancient Indian Wear: Antariya, Uttariya, and Kayabandha