Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen, part 1, an interview with Michele Majer and Emma Cormack

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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For more than 500 years, lace has remained at the forefront of fashion. Join us this week as we explore this lace's history as a handmade luxury good and status symbol as we also explore lives of lacemakers and the techniques and tools of the trade. RECOMMENDED READING: Cormack, Emma and Michele Majer, eds. Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2022. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations 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.
0:23.2	For over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
0:26.8	Every day, we all get dressed.
0:28.8	Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion.
0:31.1	A podcast that explores the who, what, when, of why we wear.
0:34.6	We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.
0:38.1	And April Callahan.
0:40.4	Welcome Dress listeners.
0:41.6	And hello, good morning, Cass.
0:44.0	Good morning.
0:45.2	Morning.
0:45.6	Yeah, we're recording bright and early this morning.
0:48.4	But I would like to ask all of you, including you, Cass, to consider this scenario.
0:54.9	It's your time for a trip to the dentist, which is an necessity of life.
0:58.8	Certainly a few of us relish.
1:00.4	And some of us, I think I would include myself in this abhor, not a fan.
1:05.0	You're having anxiety just mentioning it, but go on.
1:09.0	Well, what have I told you that you could make your next visit not just pleasant,
1:13.6	but potentially fabulous.
1:15.7	If you happen to share a tooth dock with the cultural critic and writer,
1:19.4	Louise Sebastian Mercier, who noted of a visit quote,
1:23.2	the dentist makes you sit down, lifts his lace ruffle, pulls your tooth with a well-dressed hand
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