Dressed Classic: The Dress Detective, an interview with Amber Butchart
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Fashion history and crime labs may seem like strange bedfellows. This week we speak to real-life dress detective, Amber Butchart, about her work in forensics and fashion history applications outside of museums and design studios.
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| 0:00.0 | Dress The History of Fashion is a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:23.0 | Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:27.0 | Every day, we all get dressed. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to Dress The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who-what-when of why we wear. |
| 0:35.0 | We are fashion historians, Andrew Hose, April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello Dress listeners! |
| 0:42.0 | So for the past 5 seasons and almost 5 years, April and I have been bringing you a wide range of stories |
| 0:49.0 | exploring and celebrating the significance of clothing from throughout history and around the world. |
| 0:54.0 | We are currently on hiatus, researching a way for a brand new season of dress. |
| 0:59.0 | 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 the archive of almost 400 past episodes. |
| 1:13.0 | Enjoy! |
| 1:15.0 | So Cass, our regular listeners will know that we frequently joke about being dressed detectives. |
| 1:22.0 | That we should get some dress detective hats made, etc. |
| 1:26.0 | But today, we're actually going to chat with a real-life fleshed-and-blood dress detective. |
| 1:32.0 | Yes, because unminutes to us, our cheeky little moniker has now officially become an occupation in the UK. |
| 1:39.0 | Who knew that studying fashion history just might earn you a detective badge? |
| 1:44.0 | I know! |
| 1:45.0 | But if you think about it, Cass, it really does feel like something that Sherlock Holmes might have studied |
| 1:51.0 | in all his academic pursuits. |
| 1:54.0 | And I am such a big fan of the Benedict Cumberbatch series Sherlock. |
| 1:59.0 | Oh, yeah, me too. |
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