While conducting research, FHM Curator & Director, Jonathan Walford, often runs across interesting fashion-related stories and shares them through this blog.

Polyester Soldiers and other Farbs

Farb was a term first used in the 1960s by historic costuming re-enactors. Being called a Farb was not a compliment...

Zipping Down History

Most inventions are not the creation of one person’s idea and development, but rather the result of many individual’s improvements on...

Myth Information - The First Miniskirt

So, it turns out that the miniskirt wasn't ‘invented’ by Mary Quant, or Andres Courreges, or John Bates, or Rudi Gernreich, or Marimekko…...