Cass to say that you and I are obsessed with collecting fashion history books is of course a bit of an understatement and

Today we want to share with our listeners the very cool Cat Walk series of books by Yale University Press. a very

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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 Calligan,

and Cassidy Zachary.

Welcome to the show.

April, I suppose there is some irony to be found in the fact that my

undergraduate degree is in costume design and my master's is in fashion history and yet I just do not sew.

Well, I can't particularly comment on that a lot because I don't sew either. My mom tried to teach me how to sew when I was a kid and she was always a huge

crafter making like all kinds of different things my whole life. I grew up around sewing, knitting,

she made baskets for a while. She even kind of mastered the art of

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