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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 that

explores the who-what-win of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your hosts,

Cassidy Zachary, and April Callahan. Dress listeners today is part two of our episode on the

American Military Trade and its workers. Last episode we left off with a brief discussion of

labor relations in the industry at the turn of the 20th century and some of the organizing

efforts that were undertaken in the fashion industry to correct the working conditions

that were endured by fashion workers, including milleners, many of whom were immigrants.

And this period around the 19 teens was a hotbed of labor organization in the fashion industry,

really kind of spurred on, while at least in part by the disaster at the triangle

shirt waist factory in 1911, which Cassidy now realized that we have never really spoken about

in too much depth on the show. So listeners, if you would like for us to do an episode on that,

please do let us know. The teens are where we pick up today with Nadine Stewart, author of the book

American Milleners and their world, women's work from revolution to rock and roll. Nadine,

of course, joined us this past Tuesday to chat about the establishment of the military trade in

America during the late 18th century, and its development in the hands of its practitioners who

were largely women during the 19th century, and Nadine, as you may remember, is an adjunct professor

of fashion history at Montclair State University in New Jersey, and a visiting lecturer at the

Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. And in addition to writing about Millenery,

is also a hat maker herself, which we love. Yes, and the extraordinarily wide platter-burned

caps of the 19 teens is where we're going to pick up today. And that shift to the very close

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