Fashion History Titles from the Dressed Bookshelf

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We highlight a few of our favorite fashion history titles from the hundreds on the Dressed bookshelf. Books discussed in today's episode: Chinese Dress in Detail by San Fong Chan China Adorned: Ritual and Custom of Ancient Cultures by Professor Deng Qiyao Patchwork: A World Tour by Catherine Legrand Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias and the Birth of an Industry by Lauren Downing Peters Creating African Fashion Histories: Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices Vintage Fashion: A Complete Sourcebook by Nicky Albrechtsen How to Be Fabulous: Sustainable, Second-Hand Style on a Shoestring by Charlotte Dallison Fashioning Submission: Documenting Fashion, Taste and Identity in WW2 Italy through “Bellezza” Magazine by Silvia Vacirca The World According to Lee McQueen The World According to Yves Saint Laurent Yves Saint Laurent & Art Fashion and the Art of Pochoir Past Dressed episodes discussed in today's episode: The Fabric of Life: An Interview with Gee's Bend Quiltmaker Loretta Pettway Bennett A History of Stoutwear, an interview with Dr. Lauren Downing-Peters Fashion and the Art of Pochoir Africa Fashion with Dr. Christine Checinska Part I and Part II Fashion History Now #51: How to Shop for Vintage Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse with Clarissa Esguerra and Michaela Hansen Favorite Fashion History Books Fashion History Mystery #59: In Their Own Words: Autobiographies from Fashion's Greats Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion history titles! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations 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.
0:21.8	With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
0:26.1	Every day, we all get dressed.
0:28.0	Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion.
0:30.6	A podcast that explores the who, what, when, of why we wear.
0:34.5	We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary.
0:40.9	Dressed listeners, today's episode is brought to you thanks to arguably,
0:45.2	and I know you grew with me April, the greatest perk of being a fashion historian with a podcast.
0:52.0	And I know what you're going to say.
0:54.5	And that is acquiring and reading books.
0:58.0	And our listeners should know this by now.
1:00.1	But when some fashion history loving people might collect clothing, accessories,
1:04.9	fashion plates, I collect books.
1:07.6	They are hands down my absolute favorite object in the world, and one of my great loves.
1:12.9	Yes, and you are preaching to the choir cast, same, same, same.
1:18.1	Many, many, many years ago, I have to say, sometimes we all play this game with ourselves.
1:22.3	We're like, what would my ideal dream future for myself be?
1:27.1	Daydreaming kind of type thing.
1:28.6	And one of the aspects of my ideal future for myself was unlimited access to fashion history books.
1:35.7	So here we are now, we are now dreaming.
1:40.8	Going on six years of doing the podcast, and we have both added hundreds
1:46.0	of books to our book collections cast.
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