Incredible and Marvelous: Fashion's First Hipsters (Dressed Classic)
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Amid the French Revolution, a youth subculture became notorious for adopting styles so extreme they were dubbed 'incredible' and 'marvelous.' In this 2018 episode from the Dressed archive, we speak about some of fashion's first hipsters: the incroyablesand the merveilleuses.
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| 0:00.0 | Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of dress media. |
| 0:03.3 | With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:12.1 | Every day, we all get dressed. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Dress the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who what win of why we wear. |
| 0:20.0 | We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary, and April Calliam. |
| 0:25.1 | Bonjou, our dear dress listeners, April and I are |
| 0:29.8 | in Paris, may we. May we? |
| 0:32.8 | And we are currently leading our annual fashion history tour of Paris, |
| 0:36.1 | where we are taking our guests back in time and behind the seams of this world fashion |
| 0:40.9 | center in a jam-packed week of exclusive fashion and textile history experiences, |
| 0:46.4 | and this tour was developed by us specifically for our dress listeners, and some of you are here with us now. And in the next few weeks we will be bringing you our annual recap |
| 0:56.6 | episode of our provision of fashion history adventures but until then we are |
| 1:01.4 | heading back into our own fashion history to bring you two of our very favorite |
| 1:06.2 | episodes that not coincidentally speak to the power and politics of been more intertwined in |
| 1:13.9 | during some of the most tumultuous years in France's history. |
| 1:15.1 | Yes, and never have fashion and politics been more intertwined in France |
| 1:19.6 | than during the French Revolution of the 18th century, |
| 1:22.4 | something we examined closely in the 18th century, |
| 1:22.6 | something we examined closely in our 2018 episode, |
| 1:25.7 | Fashion and Politics, the French Revolution, |
| 1:28.3 | which we are airing first. |
| 1:30.8 | And this will be followed up with the incredible and marvelous fashion first hipsters, an episode |
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