Dressed: The History of Fashion

This week we answer a listener query about when and how did shorts enter women's wardrobes. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf...

30 Juli 202020min

During the 1920s and 30s, white fashion magazines and designers marketed ethnicity to white women as something that could be put on and taken off at will. Dr. Victoria Pass joins us to discuss the col...

28 Juli 20201h

In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the iconic fashion flick Clueless, we bring you a special interview with the film's costume designer Mona May. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:...

23 Juli 202045min

This week we examine the career of American Vogue editor Jessica Daves who presided over the magazine during the 1950s, a golden age of fashion photography and modernism. Why is it that Daves remains ...

21 Juli 20201h

This week's discussion includes the ugly makeup revolution, Costube, and highlights from haute couture's first digital fashion week. @CosTubeGuide Instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14...

16 Juli 202033min

This week, cultural historian Dr. Benjamin Wild joins us to discuss the global phenomenon of fancy dress costume, smashing any outdated conventions that label the performative act of dressing up as fr...

14 Juli 20201h 14min

Today, the bicycle is a ubiquitous summer pasttime for many of us, but in the 1890s it was a new social and cultural phenomenon that took the world by storm. As with any social activity in the ninetee...

9 Juli 202027min

Living historian and educator Cheyney McKnight joins us for part two of this episode to discuss African diasporic dress and fashion in the US during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly women's h...

7 Juli 202039min