Wigging Out: Fake Hair That Made Real History, an interview with Jessica Glasscock, pt. 2
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of Dressed Media. |
| 0:24.0 | With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:28.0 | By day, we all get dressed. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Trust, the history of fashion. |
| 0:33.0 | A podcast where we explore the who-what-win of why we wear. |
| 0:37.0 | We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary. |
| 0:41.0 | And April Callahan. |
| 0:44.0 | Dress listeners do not wig out, or perhaps do. |
| 0:49.0 | Because we are back with part two of our episode with Jessica Glasscock |
| 0:54.0 | to discuss her recent book, Wigging Out, Fake Hair that made real history. |
| 0:59.0 | Earlier this week, Jessica joined us to chat about the fashion ability of Rubik Higgs in the ancient world, |
| 1:05.0 | all the way through to one of the most satirized periods of fashion history |
| 1:11.0 | and artificial hair at the cordum re-infinite. |
| 1:13.0 | And today, where you are going to fast forward, all the way up into the present. |
| 1:17.0 | Jessica, you may remember, is a fashion historian, author, and helped the positions of researcher |
| 1:22.0 | and education liaison at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for well over a decade. |
| 1:28.0 | Her other titles include strip teas from gas light to spotlight |
| 1:31.0 | and making a spectacle of fashionable history of glasses, |
| 1:34.0 | which of course you may remember Jessica joined us last year in 2022 |
| 1:38.0 | to discuss that book about set spectacles. |
| 1:41.0 | So if you're not turned into that episode already, please do so. |
| 1:45.0 | And a warm welcome back to Jessica for part two. |
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