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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Beach Pajamas: From Sleepwear to Sportswear, an interview with Janine D'Agati and Hannah Schiff

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week fashion historians and vintage collectors Janine D'Agati and Hannah Schiff join us to discuss their book From Sleepwear to Sportswear: How Beach Pajamas Reshaped Women's Fashion which presents groundbreaking new research on beach pajamas as a missing piece of the puzzle in women's adoption of pants in the early 20th century.

Check out Janine's online shop Guermantes Vintage.

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0:00.0

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

0:03.2

With over 8 billion people in the world,

0:10.2

we all have one thing in common.

0:12.0

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:14.0

Welcome to dressed, the history of fashion.

0:16.0

A podcast that explores the who and what win of why we wear.

0:19.0

We are fashion historians and your host, Cassie Zachary, and April Calligan.

0:25.0

Dressless nurse, depending where you are in the world, it's highly likely that many of you

0:30.6

have already engaged in one of Summer's great pleasures a trip to the beach.

0:36.1

And it's certainly time for that here in York City where the weather this past weekend was

0:40.5

in the mid-80s cast, so many of my friends decamped the city, packed a cooler, and headed out to our beautiful

0:48.8

stretches of sand on the coast of Brooklyn and Long Island, and I know that people don't think of the

0:54.3

beach when they think of New York City but trust me friends we have amazing

0:59.3

beaches that are just a subway ride away.

1:03.2

So what about you, Kast?

1:04.9

Do you have any beach plans soon?

1:07.4

No, not a lot of beach plans.

1:09.4

Pool plans, yes, but no beaches living in New Mexico unfortunately.

1:14.0

It's more of a vacation destination activity for me rather than a ride on the subway.

1:20.0

You're very lucky.

1:21.0

So more of a special occasion activity and of course

1:25.1

special occasions frequently open up the door for all of us to do a little bit of

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