The Gilded Age, HBO’s latest period drama from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey.

Gilded: “Covered or tinged with gold or a golden color. “ Mark Twain coined the term Gilded Age to describe the industrial era of the late 19 th century. Twain’s view was that the period of enormous ...

As a new social class arose, values and taste shifted, and by the opening of the 20th century, America was a spectacle of modern commerce.

War would interrupt these years of the Industrial Revolution, but expanding retail and technological innovation kept fashion ...