Dressed: The History of Fashion
Fashion history is about more than pretty clothes. Dressed explores the incredibly rich and complex history behind the clothes we wear.
- Website
- https://www.dressedpodcast.com/
- Description
- Fashion history is about more than pretty clothes. Dressed explores the incredibly rich and complex history behind the clothes we wear.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-04-01 08:42
- last episode published
- 2025-03-31 19:58
- publication frequency
- 4.08 days
- Contributors
- HowStuffWorks
- Author
- HowStuffWorks
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 637
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Fashion & Beauty Arts
Recommendations
Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-31 |
Barbie: The Fashion History of an Icon, Part III (Dressed Classic) The final episode of our Barbie fashion history series explores Barbie's flowering into a fully fledged fashion icon in the 21st century and what that means in terms of diversity and representation for Barbie, in front of and behind the seams. Recommen... |
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| 2025-03-28 |
Barbie: The Fashion History of an Icon, Part II (Dressed Classic) Barbie gets the full haute couture treatment in part two of our Barbie fashion history series from 2023 which takes us into the 1980s, a period that lays the foundation for her ascension into full fashion icon status.Recommended Reading:Ruth Handler's ... |
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| 2025-03-26 |
Barbie: The Fashion History of an Icon, Part I (Dressed Classic) Barbie is so much more than a child's toy. Since making her debut in 1959, the Barbie doll has become a full-fledged global phenomenon--and fashion icon. In this three part series from 2023, we explore the fashion history and cultural significance of t... |
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| 2025-03-21 |
Origin Story: Sailor and Peter Pan Collars (Dressed Classic) This week, we revisit a 2021 episode where we explored the fascinating origins of "sailor" and "peter pan" style collars. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classesOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion... |
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| 2025-03-19 |
Fashion Animals, an interview with Joshua Katcher (Dressed Classic) During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 episodes. Today we reair our 2019 episode with animal rights activist and vegan menswear designer Joshua Katcher who joined us to t... |
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| 2025-03-14 |
Dressing in Beauty Beyond the Gender Binary with Alok Vaid-Menon In this episode we revisit our 2021 conversation with poet, performance artist, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon who discusses the beauty, importance and imperative of moving beyond the gender binary with the #DeGenderFashion movement. Want more Dressed: T... |
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| 2025-03-12 | In part one of a two-part conversation from 2021, poet, performance artist, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon joins us to discuss the history of sartorial gender codes and legislation, and the non-gender conforming individuals who dared to defy them.Want mo... |
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| 2025-03-07 |
Fashion History Mystery #34: Milk and Sugar: A Brief History of Seersucker (Dressed Classic) During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 episodes. Today we revisit a 2019 episode where we answer a listener question about the history of seersucker, which leads us to a ... |
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| 2025-03-05 |
Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse, an interview with Patricia Mears (Dressed Classic) During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 shows including this 2020 conversation about how the ballerina has inspired many a fashion designer. Dance and fashion have long ha... |
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| 2025-02-28 |
Advanced Style, Part II: Meet the Models and Muses (Dressed Classic) In this episode from the Dressed Archive, we meet some of the muses of Ari Seth Cohen's Advanced Style and Advanced Love series who joined us in 2020 to share the myriad of lessons and philosophies they've learned from their many years of getting dress... |
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