Fashion Fads from History: Live on or Leave to the Past? (Dressed Classic)

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In the wonderful and often bizarre world of fashion fads from history, we ask the question: which should live on to wear another day and which should be left to history? Recommended resources:• Bedazzled Beetles• Hobble Skirt• Painted knees Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our ⁠website⁠ and ⁠classes⁠ Our ⁠Instagram⁠ Our ⁠bookshelf⁠ with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.1	Please enjoy one of our favorite episodes from the Dressed Archive of over 500 plus shows.
0:59.6	Dress the History of Fashion as a production of dressed media.
1:08.1	With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
1:12.2	Every day, we all get dressed.
1:14.4	Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.
1:20.9	We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.
1:24.0	And Cassidy Zachary.
1:27.0	We all have this problem. Dress listeners. There is a current fashion fad going on, right, that we just cannot stand or we can't understand. It's like, why? Why is this happening?
1:38.8	April, do you have anything that you're questioning currently? Yes. I do. I do. I do. I do. And this is probably very
1:48.2	New York City specific. But you know those leather Gucci loafers that have the fur lining in them
1:56.8	or the fur trim around the outside? Yes. I see women and men or people of all genders wearing them in New York City a lot.
2:05.4	And I'm like, seriously, we live in New York.
2:08.6	You are walking down the street with that fur on your loafer dragging in whatever disgustingness is on New York City sidewalks.
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