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Welcome to dressed, the history fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, when of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your

hosts Cassidy Zachary and April Callahan.

Cast more than one of our listeners has written to us in the past suggesting that we invite today's guest on the show and little did they know at the time when they wrote to us that this was already in the works and had been in already in the works for quite some time.

Sure was and today's episode should be of great interest to all of our listeners who are animal lovers.

As are we because between the two of us April,

we have three dogs and one cat.

Yeah, we sure do.

And on more than one occasion,

they've actually been in the room with us

when we were recording. I don't even know

cast how many times have we had to pause recording in order to ask them to be

quiet I've I mean I've lost I've lost count at this point.

And I'm always like, yes, yes, yes, you're cute,

but mama's trying to work right now

and you're being slightly annoying at the moment.

And I guess I suppose that's like any other family member that we know and love right?

Yeah and I mean our pets are so much more than just our companion animals. I mean many of our listeners agree with us when we say these animals are our family and it's

unfathomable to imagine them as anything but.

However, history tells a different story as we know.

Fur feathers, leather have long been staples of the fashion industry.

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