Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of iHeart Radio.

With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion.

A podcast or re-explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.

Today, Dress listeners, I'm actually flying solo because

Cass is on maternity leave.

Congratulations Cassidy and Sean and baby Leo.

So it might just be me for a little bit here and there,

but Cass will be back very soon and believe it or not,

in the 350 episodes of Dress that we have produced so far,

that's an estimation.

We have just one one episode dedicated to the history of shoes.

Well, that is until now because, you know, sometimes even Cass and I have to scroll back to

to remember all the episodes that we've done in the last five years,

but we are wildly overdue for another one about arguably one of the most

if not the most ubiquitous accessory on the planet.

And that is shoes, of course.

And the necessity for most people, a form of adornment,

obsession, and fetish for others.

Today, fashion historian, Rysa Britannia joins us to talk about her recently released

book, Simply Titled Shoes.

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