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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Fashion History Mystery #49: A Brief History of Shorts (Dressed Classic)

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week we revisit a 2020 Fashion History Mystery where we answer a listener query about the origin of women's shorts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you have a pixel 10, you may get asked a few questions. Like, what is that? How did you do that?

0:09.1

And can we use your camera instead? Ask more of your phone. Google Pixel 10.

0:20.1

Ever wonder what Marie Antoinette and Kim Kardashian might have in common?

0:24.2

Or how a celebrity scandal from 2007 is basically just history repeating itself.

0:29.2

For Tess and Claire and we host, Right Answers Mostly, a podcast where history and pop culture collide.

0:34.9

From ancient queens to reality TV stars, we break it all down with the rich, juicy storytelling

0:40.1

it deserves.

0:41.2

It's giving girlhood, it's giving historically accurate, most of the time.

0:45.5

New episodes every Monday and Friday.

0:47.6

Come for the facts, stay for the drama.

0:49.8

This is right answers mostly, where history is just gossip.

1:07.2

Dress listeners, Bonjour from Paris.

1:12.5

Yes, we are currently on our annual summer hiatus from the show as we conduct our summer fashion history tours of the City of Lights. But worry not, we will be back with brand

1:17.0

new content dedicated to all of the exciting fashion history exhibitions and other behind-the-scenes

1:22.5

experiences we have encountered here. Until then, please enjoy this episode from the Dressed Archive of over 500

1:28.8

past shows. With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day,

1:39.3

we all get dressed. Welcome to Dress, the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who,

1:44.4

what, win of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary and April

1:50.2

Callahan. Welcome, dress listeners, to yet another round of fashion history mystery where we

1:56.8

answer your questions. And today's query comes to us all the way from the land down under.

2:04.6

Listener Rebecca Beaumont wrote to us very recently and she said, hi from Australia. You both have

2:10.7

spoken a lot about hemlines and the birth of the miniskirt, but I would like to know about how and

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