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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Fashion History Now #69

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

From clothes curtains to computer microchips to calico doll dresses, in the latest edition of Fashion History Now, we explore the fascinating--and surprising-- stories quite literally woven into the clothes we wear and the technology we use. Other things we love in this episode: Catherine Martin X Upcycled by Miu Miu. Check out Catherine's directorial debut fashion film here. Sarah Espeute's incredible clothes curtains: @sarahespeute and Oeuvres Sensibles for pre-order. Dressed happenings: Cassidy's Vintage Fashion History 101 and What Women Wore to the Revolution class, April's Fashion History Tours of the MET Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our ⁠website⁠ and ⁠classes⁠ Our ⁠Instagram⁠ Our ⁠bookshelf⁠ with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dressed the History of Fashion is a production of Dressed Media.

0:13.5

With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

0:17.9

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:20.0

Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion,

0:22.8

a podcast that explores the who, what, when, of why we wear. We are friends, fashion historians,

0:28.5

and your host, April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary. Dress listeners, April, hello. Hello.

0:36.7

Welcome to another episode of Fashion History Now, number 69, to be exact.

0:44.0

Oh, well, very saucy number this episode.

0:47.2

And it's been a minute since we've done a fashion history now quite a few months.

0:51.9

Yes.

0:52.1

So I bookmarked things and I was going through my items this

0:55.4

morning and I was like, ooh, I have good content for several fashion history nows to come.

1:01.4

I know. It's so funny because I do that too. I bookmark things. I do it a lot through Instagram.

1:05.8

I save. And of course, I was going back through all those because it's been so long since we've done

1:10.3

a fashion history now. I'm like, oh, that exhibit's now closed. Oh, Pierre Paolo being appointed

1:15.3

Balenciaga is now old news. Jonathan and Anderson, now being the entire creative director of Dior is now

1:23.0

old news. Yes. Congratulations, Jonathan. And I am actually quite pleased with what I am seeing so far.

1:30.8

It's, of course, we're in the midst of New York Fashion Week and all of the fashion weeks to come.

1:36.3

So very exciting. I feel like we've turned a corner, maybe, hopefully. I'm crossing my fingers, right?

1:43.7

Because I think you and I have been very vocal

1:46.2

about the fact that we have been a little bit frustrated with the state of fashion the last few years.

1:50.3

So I am ever hopeful that maybe we're shifting gears in a good way.

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