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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, when, of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan.

Okay, get ready dress listeners because today we are about to go cross genre.

That is right for some of you today's episode might just combine two of your favorite

types of podcasts.

And that is fashion history, of course.

And April, we are officially entering the true crime marketplace.

April stumbled across this story.

We are about to share today dress listeners.

And she just immediately started sending me text messages about how this may very well

be the 1860s version of the recent Netflix.

Documentaries, tender swindlers, and then the docu series Bad Vegan, which, of course,

if you're not familiar, are about con artists and how they, like,

extorted people for basically millions of dollars.

So the trial of Madame Rachel in London, 1868, was front page news at the time.

And coverage of the scandal reached as far as New Zealand people were simply captivated.

Before we get to the infamous Madame Rachel, I'd actually like to share

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