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Welcome to dressed the history of fashion a podcast where we explore the who

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

Cassidy Zachary. Well hello dress listeners welcome to another edition of

fashion history now where we you know kind of try to share with you exciting things in the

world of fashion and fashion history as they're happening today and one of the most

exciting things to happen in the last week April you and I were both there at the launch

was the launch of fashion historian and theorists

Kimberly Jenkins the fashion and database, which is an online platform, I'm quoting from

her website, filled with open source tools that expand the narrative of fashion history and

challenge misrepresentation within the fashion system.

And she established this in 2017, she's relaunched it now in July of 2020, and we're not going to go in too much detail today because we really are hoping to have her as a guest on the show in in the future

But let's just say this is an incredibly invaluable, important, and timely database.

Head on over to fashion and race.org and we'll provide a link in our show notes as well. So definitely check it out.

Lots of excellent resources, especially if you are an educator. It has been, it's

new and improved and expanded and there's some really fun new little features in there as well.

So check it out. Kim will be joining us to talk about it in further detail in August.

Yay. Yeah.

So something I was listening to this week that I wanted to share with our dressed

listeners, Benjamin Wild was on the show on Tuesday,

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