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

Every day, we all get dressed.

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.

So it has been said of the fashion designer featured in today's episode that they're striking

gravity-defying designs of the 1950s, quote, transformed women into elegant geometric equations.

Quote, to achieve these designs required what might be described as feasts of engineering,

employing tools and techniques that could effectively push, pull, and support.

And this designer created their quote, own cathedrals of fashion.

Post-buttrists with crinolin and bodices made rigid with metal or bone, padding and

interlining were the scaffolding of these pieces.

Seems and darts like artful dressing.

These were positioned in the most unusual places.

Coin size weights are hand-stitioned to hemlines to anchor an unbroken line of fabric.

And then moving into the 1960s, they write, quote,

that this designer developed contours that were closer to the body.

The severe points were reinterpreted into more fluid crepes and jerseys,

while featherweight chiffons captured women in whirlwind-like helixes, in quote.

And the designer, quote, journey through a lexicon of shapes and fabrics constantly renewed

with each decade, with designs that frequently incorporated the idea of movement,

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