Please enjoy this episode from the Dressed Archive. We will be back with season eight and on new dress content in February 2025.

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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 Callahan. And Cassidy Zachary. April, I'm just curious off the top of your

head if you had to pick one favorite dress, yes, one favorite

dress in history of all of fashion, what comes to mind? And it can be an extant dress or one

you've seen in a magazine or a portrait or a film. Cass, why are you so mean to me? That's incredibly

hard. But I will say this, and I have shown you this dress on multiple occasions.

If I had to pick just one, it's this Lucille dress, I think, from 1916, and it's very body conscious.

It's draped on the bias, and it's an evening gown, so it has a train in the back.

It's very slinky and sexy, but one arm is

fitted, and the other one is this draped cape arm, and it's just simply fabulous. We have the

original sketch for that dress in our collection at FIT Special Collections, and then also that we

have fashion photographs of it in Le Mode. So that would be my top pick. What about you?

I know exactly what Jess you're talking about. It's very ahead of its time as are many of Lucille's

designs from the 1910s. And no fashion historian should ever be made to choose just one favorite of

anything. So I'm going to skip that question. I see how it is.

It's such a fun exercise in recognizing the power and significance of this very specific

type of garment to what we do, both as historians and lovers of fashion.

Arguably, the field of fashion history is overwhelmed by people's continued fascination with

the dress and its evolution over

the centuries. And it is the significance of the dress, which is at the heart of Lydia Edwards'

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