Dressed: The History of Fashion

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Fashion History Mystery #52: Driving Fashion Sep 24, 2020

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This week we explore the symbiotic relationships between modern women, fashion, and cars at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Recommended reading:

Georgine Clarsen's Eat My Dust: Early Women Moderists
Emily Remus's A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown
A'Lelia Bundles's On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
Dorothy Levitt's 1909 guidebook https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Woman_and_the_Car/OkxVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Dorothy+Levitt+dedicated+an+entire+chapter+in+her+1909+book+The+Woman+and+the+Car&printsec=frontcover
FIDM's "Traveling Duster" blog: https://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2010/09/traveling-dusters.html

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Advanced Style, Part II: Meet the Models and Muses Sep 22, 2020

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This week, we meet some of the muses of Ari Seth Cohen's Advanced Style and Advanced Love series who join us to share the myriad of lessons and philosophies they've learned from their many years of getting dressed.

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Fashion History Now #18: In Vogue: The 1990's with Hamish Bowles Sep 17, 2020

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Cassidy and April "sit down" with Hamish Bowles, fashion historian, couture collector, Vogue editor, and new host of the podcast In Vogue: The 1990s.

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Advanced Style, Part I: An Interview with Ari Seth Cohen Sep 15, 2020

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Style knows no age. In part one of this two part episode, photographer Ari Seth Cohen joins us to discuss Advanced Style, his street style blog turned international movement celebrating "the stylish senior set."

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Fashion History Now #17 Sep 10, 2020

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We cover everything from smart wool to stylin' penguins in this week's discussion that also includes what is happening in the world of online fashion auctions, vintage department store catalogs, and must watch docu-series.

Knit for Nature: https://scoop.upworthy.com/109-year-old-spent-his-final-years-knitting-tiny-sweaters-for-injured-penguins
Smart Wool: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/09/wool-material-can-remember-and-change-shape
Glasses masks: https://www.wiresglasses.com/masks-all
Art of Style: https://www.amazon.com/Art-of-Style/dp/B07CLFS1J2
Fashion and textile auction houses: https://augusta-auction.com/ , https://www.kerrytaylorauctions.com/
1911 Harrods for Everything catalog: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61985

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A History of the Paper Pattern Industry Sep 08, 2020

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This week we honor the work of costume designer, fashion historian and expert on the history of paper patterns, Joy Spanabel Emery.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Emery, Joy Spanabel. A History of the Paper Pattern Industry: The Home Dressmaking Revolution. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014
Commercial Pattern Archive https://copa.apps.uri.edu/

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Fashion History Mystery #51: Rad in '39: Predicting Fashion's Future Sep 03, 2020

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This week we answer a listener question about past predictions of fashion's future; from wearable tech to smart phones and air conditioning a surprising number which are part of our every day lives were predicted a nearly century ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eAiy0IGBI

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Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion, an interview with Marcellas Reynolds Sep 01, 2020

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Iman. Tyra. Naomi. Marcellas Reynolds, author of the book Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion, joins us to discuss the legion of black models who have transformed and defined the fashion industry over the past seventy five years.

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Fashion History Now #16 Aug 27, 2020

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Would you wear Chipotle?! This week we discuss a new clothing initiative by the fast food chain, the YouTube series Black Girl in a Big Dress, what's happening in a Taiwanese laundry, and address some listener mail.

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To Read: Sweatpants Forever, Polish MPs, Chipotle

To Watch: Mucho Mucho Amore: The Legend of Walter Mercado (Netflix), Black Girl in a Big Dress (YouTube)

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Future Fit: A History of the Jumpsuit, an interview with Andrea Lauer Aug 25, 2020

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This week Andrea Lauer joins us to discuss the utilitarian and utopian history of the jumpsuit. A favorite fashion staple of the 21st century, the jumpsuit is a surprising site of discourse on economics, class and gender.

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