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2025-01-17 |
Fashion History Mystery #14: "Copying: a Fancy Name for Stealing (Dressed Classic) Detective hats on as we head back into the Dressed archive to revisit a 2019 episode where Cassidy and April address a listener question regarding fashion copying: fashion fakes are nothing new, but just when and where did the practice start and why?Wa... |
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2025-01-15 | Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was one of the 20th and 21st centuries great luminaries, most famous for his prolific career as a photojournalist for LIFE magazine. A man of many talents, this week we explore his unlikely career as a fashion photographer by r... |
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2025-01-10 |
A History of Pockets, part II, an interview with Dr. Ariane Fennetaux During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog.Today we return with part II of one of our most requested--and popular--episodes of all time. Dr. Ariane Fennetaux joins us for a two-part episode d... |
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2025-01-08 |
A History of Pockets, part I, an interview with Dr. Ariane Fennetaux During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog.This week we bring you one of our most requested--and popular--episodes of all time. Dr. Ariane Fennetaux joins us for a two-part episode discussing... |
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2025-01-03 |
Fashion History Mysteries: Mary Janes and Chatelaines (Dressed Classics) Today, we revisit two Fashion History Mystery episodes exploring the fascinating histories of Mary Janes and Chatelaines.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classesOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion ... |
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2025-01-01 | This week we revisit an episode from 2018: Murderous Millinery. From the 1870s to the 1920s, millions of women embraced the fashion for ornamental plumage and as a result millions of birds died for it.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our webs... |
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2024-12-26 |
Fierce: The History of Leopard Print, an interview with Jo Weldon During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog.This week we puurrrfectly WILD this week as we revisit our 2018 episode with author, activist and performer Jo Weldon who joined us to speak about h... |
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2024-12-25 |
Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain, an interview with Ami Bouhassane and Amber Butchart During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog.This week we revisit our 2021 episode about model, photographer and humanitarian Lee Miller, who is the subject of the 2024 film Lee starring Kate W... |
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2024-12-20 |
How to Read a Dress, an Interview with Lydia Edwards (Dressed Classic) We revisit our 2021 interview with fashion historian and author Lydia Edwards who joined us to discuss her acclaimed book How to Read a Dress.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classesOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 100 of ... |
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2024-12-18 |
How to Read a Suit, an Interview with Lydia Edwards (Dressed Classic) We revisit our interview with fashion historian and author Lydia Edwards in 2020 when she first joined us to talk about her then newly released book How to Read a Suit, the highly anticipated menswear version of her acclaimed How to Read a Dress.Want m... |
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