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Welcome to Dressed The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what

win of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host April Callahan and

Cassidy Zachary April this week you and I actually created our very own fashion

history mystery question for ourselves. We are of course fresh off the

hills of the 2019 Coateer fashion collections for fall and I text you last week inquiring if you knew

when Oak

cheer week as we know it today was born. So you know these very highly

exclusive showings of only a select handful of designers that's shown

twice a year. And both of us really kind of have this big question mark

above our heads, and that made it clear to me that it was time to immediately

nerd out and get real specific, which all of our listeners know by now you and I love to do.

Oh yes we do.

Before we dive into the question though, Cass, maybe we should do a quick Oak

Couture refresher course.

Some of our listeners may recall

from our very first episode on Charles Frederick Wirth

that in the mid-19th century,

worth became one of the founding fathers of Oak

Kuchur or literally high sewing translated into English when he decided to design

dresses for his clients. Right because prior prior to this period, it was common for women to really work in tandem with their

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