One of these was fashion. During the Romantic era, for example, one could spot a revolutionary from the way his beard was trimmed. In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku ...

For post-war fashion in Poland, the fight was just beginning. When the women citizens of Warsaw began returning to the capital in 1945, they did so in simple, patched suits and thick woollen stockings ...