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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Fashion History Mystery #59: In Their Own Words: Autobiographies from Fashion's Greats

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of iHeart Radio.

0:09.0

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

0:12.9

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:15.1

Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what-win

0:19.6

of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

0:24.7

And April Callahan. Dress listeners, some of you might want to go ahead and pull out a pen and

0:31.8

paper for today's episode because we have received so many requests from you all about book

0:37.3

recommendations. And usually when this happens, we refer our listeners back to one of our earliest

0:42.8

fashion history mysteries back in February of 2019 when we discuss some of our favorite fashion books.

0:49.2

However, we thought that it's perhaps time for a little bit of a refresh on that list.

0:54.2

And this time, thematically, it's going to be a little bit of a twist.

0:58.4

Yeah, because today we are going to provide some recommendations,

1:01.3

per perhaps the ultimate primary source in autobiography. But of course, as we do on Dress,

1:08.1

these all have been written by some of fashion's grades. And we do want to say that our

1:13.3

recommendations today are no way, of course, comprehensive in terms of who has and has not written

1:18.3

in an autobiography or a memoir because of the copious number of fashion memoirs out there.

1:23.8

So we've limited our list of fashion designers, editors, and a few fashion photographers.

1:29.2

Yes. And there is a lot more out there to say, especially if you want to throw in the modeling

1:34.8

and beauty industries, so many more memoirs and autobiographies from that industry.

1:40.2

And we're actually not going to delve into that today. So maybe that's a different

1:44.2

recommendation list for a different day. And Cass, as you know, a couple of the books on today's

1:49.9

list have been mentioned in past episodes of Dress. But we also know that not all of our listeners

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