Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of I Heart Radio.

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

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who, what win of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan.

Okay, dress listeners.

We have heard you because more than a few of you have written to us lately,

noting that you really especially enjoy our extra, extra nerdy episodes of Dress.

And today's mini-sode promises to be exactly that.

Yes, totally nerding out today.

This is actually going to be really fun because today we're going to play a bit of the alphabet game,

but by way of the history of fashion, of course.

And because we are also word nerds, we thought it'd be entertaining to explore some of the more,

well, unusual terms used for garments and textiles in eras gone by.

And April and I have actually selected words that we ourselves were unfamiliar with until working on this episode.

So they should be an educational exercise for one and for all.

And maybe I don't know, keep tally dress listeners.

Maybe you do know some of these terms.

I don't know.

I knew like one.

I feel like I feel like some of our like professional fashion historians out there are going to know a few,

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