Men in Heels: a His (and Her) Story, an Interview with Elizabeth Semmelhack
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
High heels have long been the domain of women--but first they were worn by men. This week, we track the evolution of the high heel as worn by male cavalry to "irrational" women with Bata Shoe Museum Senior Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack.
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| 0:00.0 | 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 |
| 0:25.6 | more than 1,000 stunningly beautiful photographs in each book. |
| 0:30.0 | 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. |
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| 1:23.0 | Dress The History of Fashion is a production of I Heart Radio. The It's over 7 billion people in the world. We all have one thing in common. |
| 1:49.2 | Every day we all get dressed. Welcome to Dressed, The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who |
| 1:55.3 | what win of why we wear. You are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan, |
| 2:00.3 | and Cassidy Zachary. Pop quiz April, if you had to pick just one favorite pair of shoes from throughout your entire |
| 2:07.4 | life, what would they be and why? |
| 2:10.3 | Ugh, do I have to pick just one pair? |
| 2:14.0 | Can I pick multiple pair? |
| 2:15.0 | One pair? |
| 2:16.0 | Okay, okay, okay, okay. |
| 2:18.0 | So I have to say probably my favorite pair of shoes that I own are these really, really beautiful Prada shoes from like 2003. |
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