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So over seven 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 where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your hosts, April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary.

Welcome Dress listeners. Today's episode is about a topic long requested by our listeners.

And long promised by us because today we are talking about the history of corsets.

But a typical history this is not because today we are going to be talking about constructing the

corsets history or rather exploring the history of the corsets construction.

So in other words, we'll be talking about the ways in which the corsets shape and form have

changed throughout the course of its existence. Yes, and we could think of absolutely no better guest

to follow this thread of the corsets history than the corset construction in Queen herself.

Cynthia Sechi because Cynthia is a corset maker, which is of course not a profession you hear too

too much about today. And she is also the founder of Red Threaded, which is a world-renowned company

specializing in making high quality costumes clothing and perhaps most famously in the historical

costuming theater and film communities. Red Threaded makes corsets and corsetry. So we are so

pleased to have her join us today to share her expertise on the historic construction of one of the

most iconic and perhaps controversial garments in the history of fashion. Cynthia, welcome to dress.

Cynthia, welcome to dress. It's so great to see you and meet you in person or on Zoom.

Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. So I'd love if we could actually start with the basics.

What is a corset and what purpose did this garment or type of garment surf historically?

So this is going to be incredibly broad strokes, but corsets are stiffened support garments that

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