Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore with Kiki Smith and Keren Ben-Horin, Part I
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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What stories can our clothes tell? This week we celebrate the groundbreaking exhibition Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore with curators Kiki Smith and Keren Ben-Horin. The exhibit is the first to display the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection which prizes the everyday clothing of ordinary women, from hard-worn house dresses to psychedelic micro minis and modern suits to fast-food workers’ uniforms.
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| 1:09.2 | Every day we all get dressed. |
| 1:11.2 | Welcome to Dressed The History of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what, when, of why we wear. |
| 1:17.8 | We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary. |
| 1:24.0 | Welcome, dressed listeners to an episode that |
| 1:26.8 | has been on my mind, actually, for quite some time. |
| 1:30.5 | Five years, to be exact. Wow. |
| 1:33.0 | Since 2019 when I read Chief Fashion Critic for the New York Times, |
| 1:38.0 | Vanessa Friedman's article entitled, |
| 1:41.0 | Should these clothes be saved? |
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