Dress the history of fashion is a production of iHeartRadio.

For seven 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, the podcast where we explore the

who, what, when, of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your hosts, April Callahan.

And Cassidy Zachary.

Okay, dress listeners, we would like to paint a picture for you or rather bring to life a photograph.

So a woman sits quietly, she's thoughtfully embroidering in what has to be one of the most

beautiful dresses I have ever laid eyes on. It is made of the most brilliantly

colored red silk. The tailored bodice fits her like a glove from which cascades this giant

skirt that pillows on the floor at her feet. The dress is remarkable in that it is covered in

embroidery, a combination of abstract and figurative motifs and a range of shapes, sizes and

colors. And closer inspection actually brings the extraordinary diversity and range of

embroidered elements into more vivid detail. And you realize that no two motifs are like

their starbursts, sunflowers, birds. You can even make out the words you are beautiful

embroidered beneath a giant spider web that spans the entire back of the bodice.

It's since underneath an embroidered sunflower or is it a sun shining over the garment at the

base of the wearer's neck like a Bosch painting one could spend hours reveling in the details

and the incredible hand craftsmanship and skill that really went into the millions of stitches

that adorns this magnificent masterpiece. And zooming in on this image reveals that our adorn

sitter is actually embroidering the very gown that she's wearing. So zooming out a little bit,

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