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

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what-win of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan. Dress listeners, Angela Taylor of The New York Times would like to let you know

that, quote, fun, rather than value, seems to be fashion's battle cry.

And one result is that clothes that used to wear like iron now wear like paper, end quote.

And no, Angela was not talking about someone's purchases from H&M or their latest Shane Hall

that often fall apart after a couple of wearings.

Rather, Angela put these words to page more than 50 years ago in 1966.

And she was referencing the nascent, fast, and furious, and very real fad of just that paper

fashions. Cass, the 1960s are actually one of your very favorite areas of expertise as a fashion

historian. Paper dresses of the era. I'm curious. Love them or hate them.

I love them. I mean, I love them as cultural and historical artifacts. They're really fun.

I, of course, don't love them for their fast fashion status, but they really are such

potent markers of the 1960s fashion revolution that really upended so many

sartorial and social norms of the period. So, so fun for today's conversation with our guest,

Helen Jean, who joins us to discuss her exhibition, Generation Paper, fast fashion of the 1960s,

which is on view now at the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. And the show features more than 80

examples of paper garments and accessories, which is really a rare treat for sure because these

garments were created to be disposable and most simply were tossed into the trash once they had

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