Dressed Classic: Fashion and the Showgirl, Part I
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With her towering headwear and sparkling body suit, the showgirl is an instantly recognizable, cross cultural pop icon. This two part episode from the Dressed arhcives explores her lesser known relationship to fashion, a love affair that extends back over one hundred years.
Recommended Reading:
- Andrea Stuart's Showgirls
- Linda Mizejewski, Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema
- Jane Merrill’s The Showgirl Costume: An Illustrated History
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Dress The History of Fashion is a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:22.8 | So for 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:26.6 | Every day, we all get dressed. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome to Dress The History of Fashion. |
| 0:31.1 | A podcast where we explore the who-what-when of why we wear. |
| 0:34.8 | We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan. |
| 0:38.2 | And Cassidy Zachary. |
| 0:40.4 | Hello Dress listeners. |
| 0:42.0 | So for the past five seasons and almost five years, April and I have been bringing you a wide |
| 0:47.7 | range of stories exploring and celebrating the significance of clothing from throughout |
| 0:52.4 | history and around the world. |
| 0:54.3 | We are currently on hiatus, researching a way for a brand new season of Dressed. |
| 0:59.7 | Season 6 will launch on January 17th, 2023. |
| 1:04.1 | And until then, we want to share with you some of our favorite Dressed Classic episodes |
| 1:08.7 | from the archive of almost 400 past episodes. |
| 1:12.9 | Enjoy! |
| 1:16.6 | Whisper the word showgirl in America, Britain, France, throughout the world, |
| 1:21.0 | and most people conjure up at least one if not a series of potent images from the Mulan |
| 1:26.6 | Rouge to Las Vegas from Meeston Get to Madonna. |
| 1:30.2 | For some, she is the gorgeous creature emerging in a cloud of poudre de rees |
| 1:34.9 | from a dressing room decked with sheer silk stockings and haunted by backstage Johnny's |
| 1:39.6 | deposed at the back of some spectacular review. |
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