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Dressed: The History of Fashion

How to Read a Suit, an Interview with Lydia Edwards (Dressed Classic)

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We revisit our interview with fashion historian and author Lydia Edwards in 2020 when she first joined us to talk about her then newly released book How to Read a Suit, the highly anticipated menswear version of her acclaimed How to Read a Dress.

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eight and all new dress content in February 2025. Dress the history of fashion is a production

1:07.5

of dressed media.

1:17.4

With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

1:19.5

Every day, we all get dressed.

1:26.2

Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.

1:28.5

We are fashion historians and your host,

1:36.9

April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary. April, today we get to learn all about the evolution of one of the most ubiquitous fashion stables on the planet, the male suit. And from one of our favorite

1:44.1

fashion historians, Lydia Edwards.

1:46.5

Lydia is a fellow fashion historian and author joining us all the way from Perth, Australia,

1:51.4

and she lectures at the Academic Pathway Program at the Edith Cohen University

1:56.5

and also teaches costume history at Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts.

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