Please enjoy this episode from the Dressed Archive.

We will be back with season eight and on new dress content in February 2025.

With 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 win of why we wear. We are fashion historians

and your host, Cassidy Zachary. And April Callahan. Cass, I should probably confess that I have

seen our guest on today's show naked many times.

Go on.

I would also bet that some of our listeners out there have also seen her naked many times.

Yay!

Naked ladies is not where I thought this episode was going today, but I'm fully on

board. Okay. No worries. Today's show will be wild, but not X-rated. It will be over-the-top,

fabulous, super glamorous, but most of all, it will be fierce. That's right, because today we welcome

Joe Weldon to the show. She is the author of the

recently released book, Fierce, the History of Leopard Print. Joe is a terrific writer, and from what

you have said, April, I'm guessing that's not all. Nope. She's also an activist, an educator,

a photographer, a sizzling stage performer. And on a personal note, she's also the

woman who taught me how to tassel twirl. Joe is a superstar of the American burlesque and also

the headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque. And some of you may already be familiar

with her stage persona, Joe Boobes. Okay, it's all making sense now,

and this is about to get super fun. A fierce, dressed welcome for this fierce woman. Welcome, Joe.

Thank you so much for being here with us today, Joe. Thank you for having me. Yeah, of course.

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