Hi! Welcome to the unified HBC site. We have reorganized the entire HBC site that was formerly hosted at Fortunecity. Fortunecity decided to improve their editing system. As usually happens with such improvements, they made it impossible to work on the existing pages because of how we had loaded the ages. We were distatisfied with Forunecity, Xoom, Nettaxim and Geocities where other sections of HBC were housed because of all the screen clutter and annoying popups. So we decided to move HBC to fee-based host. I think you will find the results much more enjoyable to surf.
It has taken quite a while to move all those pages. A massive amount of recoding was required as there were more than 5,000 pages that had to be fixed!! It is now up and running. However there are still a lot of coding errors which need to be corrected, primarily with the links. If you find a bad link, just report it to me and I will correct it as soon as possible.
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In the meantime I have also added many new pages. I estimate that there is now about 10,000 pages and 13,000 images on HBC and many more pages on the associated satellite sites. This is certainly the largest history or fashion site on the internet. It may the largest site not maintained by a large corporation or university. Our goal is to create an online encyclopedia, not only assessing fashion trends but placing them in a meaningful historical context. Of special interest is adding personal accounts to provide details of actual experience.
Recently hispeed has merged into usanethosting. You should change your old bookmarks. I am unsure how long the hispeed pages will work. As part of this move have come higher hosting fees. Because of bandwith constraints we need to ask you to make a small contribution so we can can afford to make the images available to you.
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The move to Hispeed has of course slowed down the construction of new pages. I am now able to put more attention to building new pages rather than recoding the old ones.
One new project is well underway on a new satellite site. I am creating a U.S. Presidential site to complement the European Royalty site. The Presidential site will be particularly helpful as most of the presidential or presidential family images can be dated or estimated within a few years. Thus they are particularly useful in developing the time line of various styles. I don't have a lot of images loaded yet, but I have collected a lot of historical background on many of the presidents which will help put a discussion of fashion in a historical context with a definable timeline.
