Hey Saturday listeners!

Today we are visiting an interview episode.

Fashion historian April Callahan appeared on our show as a guest.

Now April and fellow fashion historian Cassidy Zachary have a podcast of their own that

is part of the house stuff works family which is called Dressed.

So listen to April's interview and then check out Dressed the History of Fashion at DressedPodcast.com.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class from house stuff works.com.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Frye and I'm Tracy B Wilson.

And Tracy is you and our listeners will recall back in January we have fashion historian and author

April Callahan of the Fashion Institute of Technology on to talk about the stenciling technique of

Poshwar and her amazing book on fashion plates that covers 150 years of style as it developed.

And not long after that interview as April and I were emailing back and forth she mentioned a

lecture that she gave a few years ago about World War II fashion in France and I was immediately

intrigued and so she had sent me some of the info about it and I asked her to please please please

come back and talk about that so that is what we were talking about today.

Yeah I remember when that conversation happened and you were immediately so excited.

So Tracy she has this cool thing. We're talking about it.

Uh yeah. Well in addition to it being something that is one of your personal interests the subject

itself is incredibly interesting and not something I ever had thought of before right we've talked

on the show when fashion has been dictated by world events because of things like there was a

shortage of fabrics so everybody wore things that required less fabric but this is a whole other

way more involved timeline and factors that we're looking at today.

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