Silver Slippers, Disco Dandies, Oh My! Costuming 1975’s “The Wiz”
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Search TFL Improvement Plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:30.0 | 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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