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For seven billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who let

when of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.

And Cassidy Zachary. Welcome to the show dress listers.

We, as you know, are now in our fourth season.

And if you didn't know before, now you know fashion is about much more than mere aesthetics.

It is intimately linked to a whole host of topics that reflect our personal, societal,

and even global identities.

I mean anything from religion, gender, race, sexuality, politics,

you name it.

I think we've done our best to cover all of these topics on the show.

And really the way we clothe and adorn our bodies matter.

And this applies to everything from the clothes we wear to the nails we

or our beloved nail artisans and technicians decorate for us.

Which lays us directly to our topic today because in America, especially,

you would be hard pressed to find a city that does not have a nail salon,

or usually even multiple nail salons owned by Vietnamese families.

But just how did Vietnamese immigrants come to dominate this $8 billion industry?

To find out, we watched the PBS documentary, Nailed It, by filmmaker Adele Fam.

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