The 90s, an interview with Colleen Hill, part 1
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of iHeart Radio. |
| 0:22.9 | With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:27.2 | Every day, we all get dressed. Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores |
| 0:33.1 | the who, what, when, of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary |
| 0:39.6 | and April Callahan. Okay, so I can't remember if I've ever shared this story with you, Cass, |
| 0:47.6 | or maybe even our listeners on the show, so if I have, please just bear with me here for a second |
| 0:53.8 | as I repeat myself, but I love this story so much. When I was in grad school, I overheard this, |
| 1:01.2 | what I felt like was a rather comical exchange in the library. And I happened to be standing |
| 1:07.1 | very nearby when a female student who looked to be like on the younger side of the student body, |
| 1:12.7 | you know, she was probably like 18, maybe she was 19, she was definitely an undergrad. And she |
| 1:17.6 | walked up and approached one of the reference librarians to ask for some assistance finding |
| 1:23.6 | resources on vintage fashion because she needed it for design inspiration. And this is, you know, |
| 1:29.9 | this is common. But she said that she wasn't finding anything because the period that she was |
| 1:34.9 | looking for was so long ago. And of course, the reference librarian was like, I'm happy to help. |
| 1:42.6 | What deckyard are you looking for? And the student said, I'm looking for the 90s. And the reference |
| 1:48.3 | librarian is like, okay, we have tons of things from the 1890s. We actually have fashion magazines |
| 1:54.0 | exactly from that era. We have et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There's a wealth of |
| 1:58.8 | information. And this, it was really funny because the student just kind of like is staring at her |
| 2:05.2 | blankly and not really saying anything. And then she just says, no, the 1990s. |
| 2:17.5 | And this is the part where I like fell out like on the inside to myself because when this happened, |
| 2:26.0 | I think it was probably 2008. So the 90s had been less than a decade previous. And also for me, |
| 2:33.6 | I was a little bit horrified that she thought this was so long ago because I was in high school |
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