Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of I Heart Radio.

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 went when of why we were.

I am April Callahan, the co-host of Dress, along with Cassidy Zachary,

who is taking a little bit of a wee break from the show for a maternity leave,

but she will be back soon.

And today, dress listeners, we bring you part two of our two-part episode

with Jessica Glasscock on the history of eye glasses.

Her book Making a Spectacle of Fashionable History of Glasses was recently released

and covers more than 750 years of the history of eye glasses.

And Jessica is a fashion historian where she also lectures at persons' school of art and design in New York City

and was formerly a researcher at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

for more than a decade.

And in part one of this episode, we covered eye glasses and eyewear intended to improve sight.

But today, we're going to turn our attention to sunglasses,

which also have this equally fascinating history.

We are so happy to welcome Jessica back to the show for part two.

We have yet to speak about sunglasses.

And you do note some very interesting early examples in China,

as well as Inuit and Eupik peoples.

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