Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of dress media.

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

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dress the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who what

win of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host,

Cassidy Zachary, and April Calliam.

Dress listeners.

Today's episode follows hot on the heels of our episode with Nancy McDonnell,

who joined us earlier this week to speak about her book,

Empresses of 7th Avenue, World War II, New York City, and the birth of American fashion.

And that explores the lives and careers of the fashion editors,

journalists, designers, publicists, photographers,

and other women fashion movers and shakers who really gave birth

to the American fashion scene on an international scale during the years of World War II.

And yet, we have one more very important Empress to discuss this week,

as well as some very cool updates on the subject from one of our

past episodes.

Back in 2018 fashion historian educator and author Natalie Nodell joined us to speak about her recently released documentary

calendar girl which detailed the life and career of Ruth Finley who is one of the

founders of the fashion calendar which organized and oversaw the scheduling of all things American fashion for seven decades.

And today Natalie is back with a brief refresher of Finley's importance as a figure in American fashion history

and also to share how her research and work on the fashion

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