Cass to say that you and I are obsessed with collecting fashion history books is of course a bit of an understatement and

Today we want to share with our listeners the very cool Cat Walk series of books by Yale University Press. a very

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and every runway show by the designer featured. So we're talking about

more than 1,000 stunningly beautiful photographs in each book.

The series includes books on Chanel, Chloe, Dior, Louis Vuitton,

Eissant Laurent, Prada, Versace, and Vivian Westwood,

which of course we have already had author Alexandra Fury on the show to discuss and we are so

pleased to announce that the newest addition to this series en jivenshi is out now.

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Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what win of why we wear.

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

Well, Halloween was just yesterday and on the heels of our fashion that kills episode

April and I wanted to cover another decidedly morbid topic. In fact we thought it would be

fun to dissect the flapper.

Well, I mean, not literally, of course.

But it is going to be fun to take apart this iconic 1920s lady apart piece by piece from the top of her bobbed head of hair

all the way down to her dancing feet. But first, what exactly is a flapper and where did she come from?

You might think you know the answer to this, but what we have to share with you today may just

surprise you.

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