One track on Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” honors a long-celebrated, oft-miscast heroine of American feminism: actress Clara Bow. As historians of the 1920s, we’ve studied Bow’s fame and her cultural legacy. At her ranch in rural Nevada, we oversee a collection of her personal artifacts, including her clothing and a makeup case.

In a town typically light on fashion and heavy on partisan friction, what one high-profile figure wore to a swanky White House affair has ignited a ferocious debate seemingly just as polarizing as politics in Washington.

One track on Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” honors a long-celebrated, oft-miscast heroine of American feminism: actress Clara Bow. As historians of the 1920s, we’ve studied Bow’s fame and her cultural legacy. At her ranch in rural Nevada, we oversee a collection of her personal artifacts, including her clothing and a makeup case.

One track on Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” honors a long-celebrated, oft-miscast heroine of American feminism: actress Clara Bow. As historians of the 1920s, we’ve studied Bow’s fame and her cultural legacy. At her ranch in rural Nevada, we oversee a collection of her personal artifacts, including her clothing and a makeup case.

While fashion brands such as Isabel Marant and Ralph Lauren regularly use the Western genre for their collections, those that previously had little or no contact with the style from the American West have also switched over in recent months: Saint Laurent, Prada and Khaite are presenting Looks include fringe leather jackets, rodeo jeans, prairie dresses and cowboy boots.

Billed as the anniversary of the Levi’s 501 jeans, May 20, 2023 marked 150 years since the denim giant and a Nevada tailor, Jacob Davis, received a patent for what they described as an “improvement in fastening pocket-openings.”

Based in San Francisco, Levi’s rose to prominence in part due to a massive local demand for workwear.

No dress shirt, no dress shoes, no problem, even at some of this area’s once buttoned-up offices