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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Medieval Peasant Pageantry with Greedy Peasant's Tyler Gunther

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Oh the perils of being a Medieval, tassel loving peasant in the 21st century! In this episode, we meet Tyler Gunther, the peasant behind Greedy Peasant, the queer, Medieval-era fashion influencer, pageant planner, and unlikely social media star who has taken the world by storm.  For more Greedy Peasant: Greedy Peasant’s website Greedy Peasant’s Patreon Greedy Peasant’s Instagram 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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0:00.0

Dressed, the history of fashion is a production of Dressed Media.

0:21.8

With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

0:25.9

Every day we all get dressed. Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion.

0:30.6

A podcast that explores the who, what, when, of why we wear.

0:34.5

We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan, Cassidy Sacri.

0:41.9

Dressed listeners, on Tuesday we met some Renaissance era fashion bloggers,

0:46.6

and today we get to meet a medieval peasant fashion influencer who has taken the world by storm.

0:53.9

The one, the only greedy peasant.

0:57.6

Or rather, we will be chatting with the peasant behind greedy peasant, Tyler Gunther.

1:02.8

And for some of our listeners, Tyler and greedy peasant may need no introduction,

1:08.3

but for those of you who are not in the know already, hold on tight because we are about to take

1:13.6

a trip into the queer medieval fever dream of the greedy peasant, a sassy queer fashion loving

1:20.5

medieval peasant who grace the world with his presence on TikTok and Instagram during the pandemic

1:26.8

and has captured hearts all around the world, definitely including ours. We are both huge fans.

1:33.9

And if you can't quite wrap your head around what we're talking about just yet, here is a small

1:39.7

sound bite just to give you an idea. What you are seeing right now is rare, colorized footage

1:46.0

of backstage costume preparations for a medieval pageant in 1422.

1:51.3

The tassled Wabagong chart costumes before you were constructed by the sisters of our lady

1:57.0

of the sacred blood of the most holy martyr, costume shop. The medieval costume designer's name

2:02.8

has been lost to history and will remain unknown, but was most likely gay.

2:08.9

And just a little bio-ungritty peasant brought to you from Molly Ohmstead's slate article

2:13.9

make medieval stuff queer again. So Molly, Molly actually watched hundreds of greedy peasants

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