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Please enjoy this episode from the Dressed archive on fashion, politics and the French Revolution, a tumultuous period when the clothes you wore could be a matter of life or death.
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Researchers rejoice! Today we continue our deep dive on American fashion history with Natalie Nudell, who joins us for an update on her multivalent project analyzing and making accessible the Fashion Calendar. Ruth Finley’s Fashion Calendar served as American fashion’s organizational hub for more than seven decades and is an invaluable record of time, place, commerce and the history of design.
Recommended resources:
Fashion Calendar database
In American Fashion: Ruth Finley’s Fashion Calendar
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This week’s deep dive into the history of American fashion begins with a conversation with Nancy MacDonell who joins us to discuss her newest book Empresses of 7th Avenue: WWII, New York City and the Birth of American Fashion which details the pantheon of women behind the rise of American fashion during the 1940s.
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In this week’s two part episode, Dr. Elizabeth L. Block joins us to discuss the cultural significance of hair and hairdressing in 19th century America, introducing us to the spaces and faces that defined this booming industry and profession and are the subject of her new book Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing.
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We've often discussed what stories are woven into the clothes we wear, but what about those braided into our hair? In this week’s two part episode, Dr. Elizabeth L. Block joins us to discuss the cultural significance of hair and hairdressing in 19th century America, introducing us to the spaces and faces that defined this booming industry and profession and are the subject of her new book Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing.
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We've often discussed what stories are woven into the clothes we wear, but what about those braided into our hair? In this week’s two part episode, Dr. Elizabeth L. Block joins us to discuss the cultural significance of hair and hairdressing in 19th century America, introducing us to the spaces and faces that defined this booming industry and profession and are the subject of her new book Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing.
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Following up on our wildly popular 2022 episode on obscure fashion terms from history, we bring you an all new two-part episode from A to Z!
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Following up on our wildly popular 2022 episode on obscure fashion terms from history, we bring you an all new two-part episode from A to Z!
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Based on her one-woman show, WHat I wORE to Work, this week Jo Weldon joins us for a two-part episode to explore the "intersection of fashion, culture and sex work." In part II, we hear about the laws governing what strippers can and cannot wear, what Jo herself wore in her many roles within the sex industry and her ongoing work as a sex worker activist.
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Based on her one-woman show, WHat I wORE to Work, this week Jo Weldon joins us for a two-part episode to explore the "intersection of fashion, culture and sex work." From the brothels of Ancient Greece to Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, part I explores sex worker style throughout history and its centuries-long influence on high fashion.
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Amber-Dawn Bear Robe joins us to discuss the Indigenous fashion on view on and off the runway at this year's SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market.
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Innovation and Indigenous fashion have gone hand in hand for time immemorial. From the original "couturiers" of America to those that represent the art form today, we explore the past, present and future of Indigenous design innovation with a compilation of past guest interviews.
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Christian Allaire joined us in 2020 and 2021Orlando Dugi joined us in 2022Amber-Dawn Bear Robe joined us in 2020, 2023, and 2024Korina Emmerich joined us in 2019Jontay Kahm joined us in 2022Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?
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We conclude our original four part series on Dressing the Summer Olympic Athlete with a brand new episode celebrating fashion—and fashion history—at this year’s Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (Paris Olympics 2024).
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From Sappho to Stonewall-and-beyond, this week we explore than 2,600 years of lesbian fashion history as Eleanor Medhurst joins us to discuss her recently released book Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion.
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This week we celebrate six years and 500 episodes of Dressed with a live, two part podcast event featuring surprise past Dressed guests and our beloved listeners.
Past Dressed guests in order of appearance for part II of this episode:
From Basic Instinct to Bridgerton, a Conversation with Ellen Mirojnick
The Art and Activism of Dress with Michael Sylvan Robinson
Ethics and Responsibility in the Jewelry Industry, an interview with Bliss Lau
Fashioning the Gilded Age: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion with Dr. Elizabeth Block, part I and part II
Fashion Period. An Interview with Dr. Shannon Withycombe
Planning a trip to Paris? You don't want to miss one of our friend Rebecca Devaney's Textile Tours of Paris!!!
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This week we celebrate six years and 500 episodes of Dressed with a live, two part podcast event featuring surprise past Dressed guests and our beloved listeners.
Past Dressed guests in order of appearance:
Chicago's Fashionable Past with Jessica Pushor, Part I and Part IILiving History: An interview with Cheyney McKnight, Part I and Part IIFHN #23 Cutting Portraits with Silhouette Artist Charles BurnsA Life Lived in Fashion with Halston Model, Muse and Archivist Chris Royer, Part I and Part IIThe Battle of Versailles: 50 Years Later with "Halstonette" Chris RoyerSome highlights from 500 episodes of Dressed:
Biba, an interview with Barbara Hulanicki and Martin PelThe King of Sexy Cling, an interview with Stephen BurrowsSonia Delaunay: The Art of Everything, an interview with Waleria Dorogova, Part I and Part IIBeach Pajamas: From Sleepwear to Sportswear, an interview with Janine D'Agati and Hannah SchiffSporting Fashion: An interview with Christina Johnson and Kevin Jones, Part I and Part IIThe Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of America, an interview with Ilise S. Carter, Part I and Part IIGordon Parks: The Man of Many HatsFashioning the Philippines: Salvacion Lim Higgins, An Interview with Mark Lewis HigginsThe Joy of Fashion, an Interview with Pat ClevelandThe Magic of 1970s Fashion with Pat Cleveland, Part I and Part IIIn Memoriam, Dressed’s guests we’ve lost
Supreme Glamour, an Interview with Mary WilsonFashion Oracle: Trend Forecasting to Paper Dolls with David WolfeFinding Beauty, an Interview with Photographer Tony VaccaroWant more Dressed: The History of Fashion?
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This week, we are joined by theo tyson and Emily Stoehrer, the co-curators of the MFA Boston's current exhibition Dress Up, which celebrates the equally significant role that dress and jewelry play in the deeply personal act and art of dressing up.
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In part II of our episode on The Met's exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, we chat with Associate Conservator Elizabeth Shaeffer and Collections Specialist Bethany Gingrich about their roles at The Costume Institute and the hidden labor that goes into mounting blockbuster fashion exhibitions.
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Andrew Bolton joins us in part I of this two-part episode exploring The Metropolitan Museum of Art's blockbuster exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. With more than 220 objects--all united under the theme of the natural world--the show seeks to evoke the sensory and ephemeral nature of fashion.
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Historian Amanda Wunder joins us in a two-part episode that illuminates the remarkable life and work of Mateo Aguado, royal court tailor to the Queens of Spain from 1630 to 1672. Aguado is the subject at the heart of her book Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV.
Further learning:
Sofía Rodríguez Bernis's article "Where Clothing was Kept," in Spanish Fashion at the Courts of Early Modern Europe
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