This orange dress (shown in 2011) survived multiple closet purges over the years because I loved the color and shape. But I hated the leng...

Detail of a silk dress from the 1830s, from the American Textile History Museum in Lowell "In the West, apparel has been expensive ...

Urgent update folks: A super-smart commenter noted that the Colorganics brand I had researched a few years ago and had thought to be lead-f...

"The sad part is that the price of individual garments would not have to go up much — 1 percent to 3 percent, various estimates say...

"Fashion largely deserves its bad reputation. It's now a powerful, trillion-dollar global industry that has too much influence o...