Dress the history of fashion is a production of dress media.

With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all have one thing in common every day we all get dressed

what's dressed

and the podcast where we explore the who went when of why we wear

and be our fashion historians and your host April Callahan and

Cassidy Zachary. Dress listeners as you all know this podcast is all about

getting dressed and while clothing is certainly a huge part of that

daily act it is not the only one.

Getting dressed extends to any modification of the body, wearing perfume and makeup, and even

tattooing. All of these are aspects of getting dressed, as is the subject that we are

here to talk about all this week, the art, act, and profession of dressing one's hair.

And this is a subject which is at the heart of today's guest, Dr Elizabeth L.

Block's new book, Beyond Vanity, The History and Power of Hairdressing, and it is an incredibly well researched,

captivating, and diverse history of women's hair and the cultural power that

Hair held in 19th century America.

Yes, and far from a frivolous pursuit beyond vanity really positions

hairdressing as a subject for serious scholarly inquiry,

with Liz successfully arguing for its central role as a significant

cultural force that shaped not just women's lives, but the society within which they lived.

And Liz takes us on a really fascinating journey from the

intimacy of women's bedrooms to the bustling international hair trade market and

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