Making It In America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (and How It Got That Way), an interview with Rachel Slade
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week we are joined by Rachel Slade to discuss her book Making It In America which examines the story of the company American Roots which has undertaken the nearly impossible task of manufacturing garments 100% made in the U.S.A. Recorded live at the recent 18th Annual Sustainability Business and Design Conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology, our discussion centers around the challenges faced by American makers.
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| 0:00.0 | Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of dress media. |
| 0:04.0 | With every 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:12.0 | Every day, we all get dressed. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to Dressed for the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who |
| 0:18.2 | what win of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host, |
| 0:22.4 | Cassidy Zachary, and April Callahan. |
| 0:25.8 | Bonsieur, one, saver, a twa. |
| 0:30.0 | Are we doing today's episode in French? |
| 0:34.0 | Because as you know, you are a much better and much more fluent French speaker than I am. |
| 0:39.0 | Men no? |
| 0:40.0 | But it is a way to let our listeners know. |
| 0:42.0 | At the top of our episode today that our |
| 0:44.8 | 2024 fashion history tour of Paris is now open for registration. |
| 0:50.0 | Maybe in Sur. |
| 0:51.0 | So so many of you kept asking us when it was going to be posted and now it is. |
| 0:57.0 | You can head over to our tours page at dressed history.com. That's dressed history. |
| 1:02.1 | com slash tours. |
| 1:04.0 | Yes and there is a link also to sign up in our show notes and just |
| 1:07.0 | listeners we are so sorry for the delay as you may have heard us mention |
| 1:11.0 | the Olympics are in Paris this summer and that complicated |
| 1:14.8 | planning a bit and it also pushed our usual summer trips to Paris to late |
| 1:19.6 | September and October and the |
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