Fashion and the Showgirl, Part II (Dressed Classic)

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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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 Robin Givhan's The Battle of Versaiiles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.1	Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion,
1:31.6	a podcast where we explore the who, what, when,
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1:35.0	We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.
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1:40.1	Well, welcome back Dressed listeners
1:42.1	to part two of our two-part episode on the history of the relationship between fashion and the showgirl.
1:48.6	Earlier this week, we explored this relationship's early 20th century incarnations, including the collaboration between fashion designer, Lucy Lady Duff Gordon and the Music Hall impresario Florence Ziegfeld that introduced high fashion and the model
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