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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 where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your hosts, April Callahan.

And Cassidy Zachary.

So this actually might not come as a surprise to you, April or listeners,

but consumers have played no small part in shaping history.

Guess what has been a central driving force of trade and consumerism

for millennia, clothing and textiles.

And that is why we are so pleased to have today's guest, Dr. Beverly Lemire,

on the show today. Dr. Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tori Chair

in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta,

where she offers classes on her area of expertise, which is fashion and material culture.

I really wish I could go back to college and take these classes, I'm just saying.

But you did read her books, so there's that.

And as will be evidenced by our talk today, Dr. Lemire specializes in the entangled

relationship between material culture, race and gender as they relate to British imperialism,

trade and the early modern era. And this is something that she has been writing about for years.

Her first book, Fashion's Favorite, the Cotton Trade and the Consumer in Britain,

was published in 1991 and was the first to consider the relationship between a single commodity

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