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Dressed: The History of Fashion

How to Read a Dress, an Interview with Lydia Edwards

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Fashion historian and author Lydia Edwards joins us to talk about the newly released revised edition of her acclaimed book How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 21st Century. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dress the history of fashion is a production of iHeartRadio.

0:22.8

There are 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

0:26.4

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:28.4

Welcome to Dress the history of fashion.

0:30.8

A podcast where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.

0:34.5

We are fashion historians and your hosts, April Callahan.

0:37.8

And Cassidy Zachary.

0:40.0

April, I'm just curious off the top of your head, if you had to pick one favorite dress,

0:45.2

yes, one favorite dress in history of all the fashion, what comes to mind?

0:50.7

And it can be an extent dress or one you've seen in a magazine or a portrait or a film.

0:55.6

Well, Cass, why are you so mean to me?

0:57.7

I mean, that's incredibly hard, but I will say this.

1:02.2

And I have shown you this dress on multiple occasions.

1:06.1

If I had to pick just one, it's like this loose seal dress, I think from 1916.

1:12.0

And it's very kind of like body conscious, it's draped on the bias.

1:16.5

And it's an evening gown, so it has like a train in the back.

1:19.5

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

1:22.8

And the other one is like this draped cape arm.

1:25.6

And it's just simply fabulous.

1:28.0

We have the original sketch for that dress and our collection at FIT Special Collections.

1:32.2

And then also that we have fashion photographs of it in lay mode.

1:35.6

So that would be my top pick. What about you?

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