Beauty or Beast?
If the thought of leaving the house without completing your beauty regime or styling your hair brings on a state of anxiety, spare a thought for people from the past, many of whom had to do some pretty strange things in order to maintain their personal appearance… Plucking painful High foreheads were considered beautiful in 15th century Northern Europe, where upper class ladies slowly and painfully plucked their hairlines and scraped back their hair. Wigging out A good example of the perils of extravagance was seen in the European courts in the 18th...

A Passion for Fashion
Want to produce the designs and fabrics that will keep the latest fashionable crowd early with the hottest looks? Don’t label yourself a fashion addict until you take this quiz! Does the thought of not going shopping for a month make you break out in a cold sweat? A) Are you trying to kill me? B) I hardly go shopping, can’t stand the crowds Have you ever bought a piece of clothing that was the wrong size so it would not go home with someone who could never love it as much as you? A) Yep, but with my sewing skills nothing’s three sizes too big...