Hanging in a closet are reproductions of the sort of uniforms worn by Biltmore’s housemaids – a gingham or calico dress by day, followed by a more formal black-and-white dress for nighttime.

A nurse went to a schoolhouse to give instructions on making a sickbed; she found fifteen mountain women there in bonnets and faded calico dresses -- all wanting to know about birth control.

These doubts, which had swirled around him for years, emerged as a critical issue in the bitter presidential campaign of 1800 ... the old woman with calico dress and poke bonnet sitting up ...

I was the 5-year-old girl who asked for pigtail braids and calico dresses, fishing poles and black ... Minnesota, in the ...

the idea being that she would reign in a simple calico dress rather than a fancy robe, to recall the county’s rural beginning. National Guard howitzers fired off a 20-round salute. Another ...

Nyiva Mwendwa, the wife of the then Chief Justice, was tasked with the unenviable duty of ensuring the wives dispensed with calico dresses and protruding petticoats, as Duncan Ndegwa informs us in ...

After its decline, Calico became a ghost town ... renaming the abandoned streets Graffiti Highway. In the late 1800s, Centralia, Pennsylvania was a booming mining town, dependent on coal.

Bata Sandak went out of fashion alongside Calico dresses, Stonewash and Savco jeans (1.5 Freezer), Azzaro shirts and half coats and the only remnant of the Sandak are those plastic shoes ...

A "Bridgerton" producer said in a new behind-the-scenes book that the show's costume designer created 1,800 dresses and spent $80,000 on costumes for the first season. In a section of "Inside ...

Jack O’Lantern Junction, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday, EnterTrainment Junction, 7379 Squire Court, West ...