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

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what-when-of-why-we-wear.

We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary, and April Callahan.

Dress listeners and keeping with this and last week's theme on the history of iWear,

we decided to revisit a favorite past Dress episode on one of the most iconic and instantly

identifiable shapes of glasses. But just what does the cat-eye frame have to do with

millionaires, harlacans, and secrets? We had it back in history to find out. Enjoy!

So, Cass, I am beyond excited for our fashion history, mystery today.

Obviously, if you are listening to this episode at this point, you already know what the title is.

We are going to explore the origins of cat-eye glasses.

And listener Stacey Apater submitted this topic to us some time ago,

and I'm really pleased to have revisited this request recently, because I had considered it for

fashion history, mystery episode last season. But then I kind of ran into a stand still,

because I was having a hard time finding this term cat-eye used in the fashion press.

Which is kind of funny, because we realized so much on our historic databases,

but yes, Dress listeners, sometimes even they too fail us.

No, or perhaps I fail them, because the fail was actually the result of my using the wrong

terminology for the period. And once I discovered that the styles at the styles launched that they

were called harlequin glasses, not cat-eye glasses. Well, let's just say that I was not exactly

prepared for the can of worms, which I was about to open up. So, the incredible story that we're

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