Dressed Classic: Fashion and the Showgirl, Part II
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
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🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, we continue our exploration of the century long love affair between fashion and the showgirl.
Recommended Reading and Viewing:
- Es-pranza Humphrey's article “Fashioning the Black Chorus Girl"
- Elspeth Brown's Work! A Queer History of Modeling
- Marcel Sauvage's Les Mémoires de Joséphine Baker
- Baker's 1931 Casino de Paris performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86HqDSY9l9A
- Robin Givhan's The Battle of Versaiiles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History
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| 0:00.0 | Just as your fashion is a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:22.7 | There were 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:26.6 | Every day we all get dressed. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who-what-when of why we wear. |
| 0:34.7 | We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan. |
| 0:38.1 | And Cassidy Zachary. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello dress listeners, so for the past 5 seasons and almost 5 years, April and I have been bringing you |
| 0:47.2 | a wide range of stories exploring and celebrating the significance of clothing from throughout |
| 0:52.4 | history and around the world. |
| 0:54.2 | We are currently on hiatus, researching a way for a brand new season of dress. |
| 0:59.6 | Season 6 will launch on January 17th, 2023. |
| 1:04.0 | And until then, we want to share with you some of our favorite dressed classic episodes from |
| 1:08.7 | the archive of almost 400 past episodes. |
| 1:12.6 | Enjoy! |
| 1:14.8 | Well, welcome back dress listeners to part 2 of our two part episode on the history of the |
| 1:20.0 | relationship between fashion and the showgirl. |
| 1:23.4 | Earlier this week, we explored this relationship's early 20th century incarnations, |
| 1:27.7 | including the collaboration between fashion designer Lucille Lady-Duff Gordon and the |
| 1:32.8 | musical Impressario Florence Ziegfeld that introduced high fashion and the model showgirl to the |
| 1:38.9 | musical stage. But what we have not yet discussed are the racialized and racist |
| 1:44.7 | under trappings that really characterize many of these musical productions of this time. |
| 1:50.0 | And the many black showgirls who defied these stereotypes to establish and circulate their |
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