Fashion History Mystery #34: Milk and Sugar: A Brief History of Seersucker (Dressed Classic)
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 episodes. Today we revisit a 2019 episode where we answer a listener question about the history of seersucker, which leads us to a surprising discussion of etymology.
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| 0:00.0 | Dressed listeners, please enjoy this episode from the Dressed archive of over 500 plus shows. |
| 0:06.5 | You have been very patient with us and we assure you Dressed will be back with all new content in the form of season eight. |
| 0:12.7 | Can you believe it? |
| 0:13.8 | In March of 2025, we have so many wonderful things up our sleeves that we cannot wait to share with you. |
| 0:19.4 | But until then, please consider |
| 0:21.1 | heading to dressedhistory.com, where you will find information regarding our upcoming fashion |
| 0:25.5 | history tours of Paris and New York, which are both open for registration and selling fast. |
| 0:31.2 | And while you are there, also consider signing up for our upcoming online course offerings, |
| 0:35.6 | which include what women wore to the revolution |
| 0:38.2 | coming your way in May. More from Dressed coming your way very soon. |
| 0:47.8 | With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day, we all get |
| 0:53.4 | dressed. |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, |
| 0:59.8 | a podcast that explores the who, what, went of why we wear. |
| 1:03.2 | We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary. |
| 1:05.3 | And April Callaghan. |
| 1:09.9 | It is Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Cass, which means that it's time for yet another fashion history mystery |
| 1:14.2 | where we answer listener questions. So, who is our lucky winner this week? Well, today's query |
| 1:20.9 | comes to us from listener Heather Emmanuel, who wrote to us requesting a minisode on the history of, |
| 1:26.8 | well, the searsucker. |
| 1:28.4 | I admittedly knew little about seersucker aside from its stereotypical association with dapper southern gentlemen. |
| 1:36.5 | So as I started researching this episode, I was surprised that our investigation would take us not only half away around the world, but also that there is a |
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