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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Incredible and Marvelous: Fashion's First Hipsters

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Amid the French Revolution, a youth subculture became notorious for adopting styles so extreme they were dubbed 'incredible' and 'marvelous.' This week we speak about some of fashion's first hipsters: the incroyables and the merveilleuses. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion history titles 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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Cass to say that you and I are obsessed with collecting fashion history books is of course a bit of an understatement and

0:07.0

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

0:15.0

cat walk series of books by Yale University Press. Yes, and each volume is a comprehensive look

0:18.0

at the catwalk photography from each collection

0:21.0

and every runway show by the designer featured. So we're talking about

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more than 1,000 stunningly beautiful photographs in each book.

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The series includes books on Chanel, Chloe, Dior, Louis Vuitton,

0:35.0

Eissant Laurent, Prada, Versace, and Vivian Westwood,

0:39.4

which of course we have already had author Alexandra Fury on the show to discuss and we are so

0:45.6

pleased to announce that the newest addition to this series en jivenshi is out now.

0:49.8

Any of the nine Catwalk titles make the perfect holiday get or gift for the fashion lovers on your list and dress listeners can get an exclusive 25% off any of the volumes in the Cat Walk series by going to Yale Books.com and using the code Dreyf. the Just use the code dressed 25 at checkout to get 25% off and free shipping on

1:16.7

orders of any of the catwalk titles. Don't miss out on this limited time offer. With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

1:46.0

Every day, we all get dressed.

1:48.2

Welcome to dressed, The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when, of why we were we explore the who what when of why we wear. We are fashion historians and

1:56.4

your hosts Cassidy Zachary and April Callahan. Cass I think it's absolutely necessary that we need to start this week's episode by first

2:05.8

setting up the scene. We talked at length about this last week on our episode

2:10.4

about fashion and politics but I think we might need a brief refresh before we can talk about an

2:16.0

especially captivating group that emerged in the wake of the French Revolution.

2:20.0

Yes, today we speak about the amazing looks worn by some of fashion's first hipsters, the

2:27.0

Encroyable and the Marveyus, the incredible and marvelous ones, so named due to their distinctive manner of dress and

2:34.3

stylish affectations. But before we can get to that, let's check back into where we

2:40.0

left off last week, and that is with the very sad execution of

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