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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Silver Slippers, Disco Dandies, Oh My! Costuming 1975’s “The Wiz”

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we go "behind the seams" of Geoffrey Holder's whimsical costume designs for the seven-time, Tony Award winning smash hit The Wiz, which opened on Broadway in 1975 and ran for 1672 performances before closing in 1979. Recommended Reading: The Wiz costumes in the collection of the NMAAHC André de Shield's article Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 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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Dressed the history of fashion is a production of dressed media.

0:40.7

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

0:56.0

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:58.1

Welcome to dress, the history of fashion.

1:00.7

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

1:04.6

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

1:11.2

Dressed listeners, all this talk about Gilbert Adrian and his costume designs for the 1939

1:17.4

classic The Wizard of Oz got me thinking about the costumes for another iconic production

1:23.6

also based on L. Frank Bombs' beloved children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,

1:28.5

and while I'm not actually referring to the very first stage production of the book,

1:32.7

it is worthy of a mention here first for some context.

1:36.0

Just a brief history on The Wizard of Oz, Bombs' book was first published in 1900 to great success,

1:43.1

and it has the most charming full-color illustrations by W. W. Denslow, who is really credited with

1:49.6

the book's success as much as Bombs, and Denslow's detailed and playful illustrations, which are on

1:55.5

almost every page of the book, arguably did as much to transport the readers to the fantasy world

2:00.8

of Oz as Bombs' text.

2:03.7

Yeah, so it's really together that they created this wonderful and whimsical world we have

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