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Welcome to Dressed, 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 Cass v. Zachary. Dress listeners, we continue our Pride Month celebrations with one of our

all-time favorite episodes from the Dressed Archives or Fashionable Wardrobe have you,

so we know you will love this episode as much as we enjoyed making it. Enjoy!

Today, we are talking about two fashion lovers and not fashion lovers in the sense that they

love fashion, but rather to lovers who work together in fashion. That these two lovers were both

women in 1920s Britain. Well, that makes their story all the more remarkable.

From 1922 to 1926, Dorothy Todd and Madge Garland transformed

British folk into a forum for the Modernist avant-garde. As editor-in-chief and fashion editor,

respectively, Dorothy and Madge worked together to mix high and low culture and a convergence of

fashion with all the new and innovative art, literature, theater, and music. The magazine included

work by some of the 20th century's greatest luminaries, including Pablo Picasso and Virginia Wolf,

many many others. This is the standard formula for almost any fashion magazine today,

but in the 1920s, this was a radically new concept. And also around breaking April,

the magazine's subtle nuances and illusions to the queer subculture in which Dorothy and Madge

and the many, many of the magazine's contributors are scribed. And I say subculture because this was

not a time when people of the LGBTQ community were openly out and about so to speak. The fact that

these two women actually lived and worked as a couple in 1920s Britain is especially interesting

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