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With over 7 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, when, of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan.

Dress listeners, it seems that one might have had to have been hiding under a rock, or at the very bare minimum,

have silenced all of their news channel notifications to have missed the fact that Queen Elizabeth of England,

Elizabeth II, passed away recently on September 8th, 2022.

The end of her 70-year reign has been vociferously mourned all around the world by many.

Well, others have taken the increased press coverage of the Queen's passing to call into question,

the crown's relevance in the 21st century, on a whole variety of different points.

Oh, yes. And that is, of course, a point well taken by us, on dress,

but actually not one that we will tackle here today.

What we will say, though, is that upon the Queen's passing, our inboxes were filled with requests from listeners

for an episode on the Queen and our British royalty style in general.

The Day of the Queen's Deathcast, I was at FIT, and I stopped counting how many people stopped me that afternoon

to ask if we were going to do an episode on her.

So, needless to say, there is tons of interest about this topic.

And I actually replied to them when they asked probably not an episode on the Queen in the immediate future,

because I knew that this press coverage of her passing was going to probably dominate the news for the next few coming weeks.

And even if I hadn't already had this episode, well in the works,

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