Polka dots can be used to create striking nail art. They can be used all over, isolated into a French tip, and more. Polka dots reemerged on the runways last fall—and the trend has only gotten ...

Glance around any department store and you’ll find a veritable buffet of textile patterns that you can rattle off without a second thought: plaid, stripes, paisley, seersucker, fleur-de-lis. Each ...

That matrix of black dots on your windshield may seem like an aesthetic add-on, but it actually serves a very important ...

Polka dots are so fun to wear and definitely add a graphic element to any ensemble, but maybe you’ve always wondered how they came to be—or where the name even originated from. For you curious fashion ...

When you think about cheerful patterns, the polka dot is one of the first that comes to mind. On celebrities ranging from Lucille Ball to Princess Diana, polka dots have become a huge part of ...

The polka dot may be a ubiquitous feature of dresses, bikinis, and twee collegiate bedspreads in the modern era, but as patterns go, it hasn’t been around for that long. The eye-popping pattern gets ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes investigates how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. When Princess Diana arrived at the ...

Get enough dots together and your faulty eyeballs start seeing things. With random dot patterns, a simple move of the dots by a few degrees can create trippy concentric circles or wild swirls that ...

When you get a vaccine, the momentary needle prick endows your with disease-fighting antibodies and doesn’t leave a trace. But in the future, your vaccine record may be written invisibly on your skin ...