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Dressed: The History of Fashion

The Fasten-ating History of Clothes (Dressed Classic)

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this 2024 episode, we explore the fasten-ating history of closing clothes through the lens of three of the most familiar fasteners in our wardrobes today: zippers, velcro, and magnets! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

0:34.6

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

0:40.9

Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.

0:47.2

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

0:53.7

Dress listeners, for the entirety of our lives we've all done it but have

0:58.4

you ever thought about why you do it and if you're wondering what the heck is Cassidy talking about

1:03.8

today's episode is dedicated to the curious history of closing clothes something we all have

1:10.2

experience with but perhaps have never really

1:12.3

taken a moment to consider. So today we are going to explore some of the origin stories of the

1:17.3

apparatus that allow us to fasten the clothes we wear to our bodies. And let's just say that perhaps

1:23.2

faster as April put the fasten into fascinating fascinating because these stories are incredibly interesting.

1:29.5

Yes, and some of them surprised me, even though I knew just a little bit here and there about them.

1:34.9

But obviously, this is a huge subject. It covers thousands of years of fashion and dress history.

1:42.1

So we had to narrow down our focus today to three specific types

1:47.2

of fasteners. We're going to cover sippers, Velcro, and magnets of all things. So in the vast

1:54.6

history of fasteners, there are of the more recent innovations, and thus their origin stories are

2:00.5

easier for us to pinpoint, mainly thanks to the fact that as products of the more recent innovations, and thus their origin stories are easier for us to pinpoint,

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