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With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day we all get dressed. Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that

explores the who-what-when of why we wear. I am April Callahan, co-host of Dress alongside

with Cassidy Zachary, who by now, many of our regular listeners will know, is out on

maternity leave for just a little bit longer, but she will be back to the show very soon.

And today, listeners, fashion historian Jessica Glasscock joins us to discuss her recently

released book, Making A Spectacle, A Fashionable History of Glasses. And Jessica is a lecture

in fashion history at persons school of design in New York City and was also a researcher at the

Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute for well over a decade. And I do believe that this

particular subject is near and dear to both of our hearts, because as very young children,

both of us, Jessica and I wore glasses. And she writes in the dedication of her book,

which is addressed to her mother, I must say, quote, I am sorry, I kept losing my glasses in

second grade, in retrospect, I like to think I was just angling for multiple pairs. I bet that

many of our listeners can identify. Jessica, welcome to Dress, we're so pleased to have you with us

today. Thank you for having me. Yeah, I just want to say I loved, loved, loved your book.

It is a tour de force of research, especially image research. I don't know how you found all those

obscure images of I wear, especially the really, really old ones that must have taken a ton of time.

So don't think that as a fashion historian, I didn't notice.

Happy to discuss my research techniques if it's of interest, but it was really fun to do. It's a

visual history as much as a written one. And I was really proud to make it both at the same time.

Yeah, and it works. It definitely, definitely works. And your book covers more than 750 years

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