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Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

We welcome to Dress The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who-what-when-of-why-we-where.

We are fashion historians and geos, April Callianne, and Cassidy Zachary.

Dress listeners, it's officially June, and you know what that means.

It's Pride Month! Yay!

And to celebrate, we are getting, quote-unquote,

dressed with an episode from the archives on the history of one of the most ubiquitous

and meaningful items of material culture associated with the LGBTQ plus movement and

communities historically in today, and that, of course, is the Pride flag.

So please enjoy this episode, Dress listeners.

And just a side note here before we get into the episode,

I don't think I've ever actually talked about this on the show explicitly,

Cass, because you and I don't so much talk about our personal lives, but I'm actually part

of the LGBTQ plus community.

So please just no Dress listeners.

I'm here, I'm queer, and we hope that you enjoy the rearing of this episode.

Cass, today is our Thursday fashion history mystery mini-sode,

and today's inquiry comes to us by way of a listener question, and also my recent trip to target.

Do you tell?

Well, some some time ago, a few months back, listeners Stephanie McMurray wrote to us,

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