It was identified as an 1880s garment by Rivers Cofield, a collector of historical costumes ... using a telegraphic weather code from the 19th century, which was employed by the Army Signal ...

This find mixes fashion, code-breaking, and weather science, giving us a peek into history and showing how ... deeper into possible links with 19th-century American secret services.

In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku (19th-Century Polish Life), he wrote: This century’s history has been an almost incessant parade of costumed demonstrations […] Some ...