The Gilded Age "Dudes" of Fashion, Part I

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week we head back to a time when "dude" meant "dandy," learning all about the now lost fashionable connotations of one of the most popular slang terms in modern parlance. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dress the history of fashion is a production of iHeart Radio.
0:22.4	Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
0:26.4	Every day, we all get dressed.
0:28.5	Welcome to Dress the history of fashion.
0:31.1	A podcast where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.
0:34.8	We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.
0:38.0	And Cassidy Zachary.
0:40.2	April, when I say the word, dude, what comes to mind?
0:46.0	Well, um, let's see.
0:48.2	I would have to say probably like valley girl speak like, dude,
0:52.2	I can't believe you just did that or dude, where's my car?
0:56.8	Yes, absolutely.
0:58.4	And I love saying the word, dude, personally,
1:00.7	it's definitely part of my slang vocabulary.
1:03.2	I like calling my girlfriends, dude.
1:07.2	So for me, at least prior to this episode,
1:10.3	dude was absolutely epitomized by the dude Jeff Bridges character
1:15.4	in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski.
1:18.0	You know, he's a stoner.
1:19.2	He basically lives in a bathrobe and sweatpants.
1:22.1	He has little to no care in the world.
1:24.2	Until this, you know, giant controversy surrounding a rug that quote,
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