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

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

and April Callihan. Cass, today, I am thrilled that we get to talk about one of my favorite

things in Dress history. And that is the intersection of fashion and extreme politics or extreme

political events. And in particular, some of my interests lie in how fashion reacts during

periods of war. And this is something that first peaked my interests about 20 years ago or so,

when I was reading the book on the French Revolution, which is called the Guilded Youth of Thermador,

which was written by a French scholar, Francois Gendron. And in this, he discusses the subculture

of the Jean-S d'Arre, or the Guilded Youth, and many of the participants in this sort of subcultural

movement were the Enquayabla and the Merrieuse, which is of course a subculture that sprung up in the

wake of the Revolution. And this subculture is in part defined by Dress. So this was a very much an

aha moment for me. And it was the very first time that had made this connection that fashion

could be wielded as a political tool. And it would be several years in the future before I would

really discover the field of fashion history as an academic pursuit. But indeed, the seed and

interest in the connection between fashion and politics had already been planted years prior.

Yeah, and dress listeners, we've already done a two-part episode on fashion during the French

Revolution. So head all the way back to season one, I believe, to check those out if you haven't

already. We've also talked about the intersections of fashion during World War One. And I think we

did a many-sode last season on fashion and politics. So these two seemingly opposite entities

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