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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History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

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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. Can’t see the exhibit in person? Get the book here! Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion history titles 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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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.
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