Dressed: The History of Fashion
With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day we all get dressed. Join Dressed as we explore the social and cultural histories behind the who, what, when of why we wear.
Episodes
April 23, 2025 • 49 mins
In this week's two-part episode, we recap our recent fashion history day tours of NYC and hear from a few of the past Dressed guests who joined us along the way. In Part I, we chat about our immersive day-long tours of the Fashion Institute of Technology and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Episodes with our featured guests:
Dress Like an Egyptian, an interview with Dr. Colleen Darnell
Making Lace: Then and Now, an interview with...
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April 18, 2025 • 39 mins
In Part II of this week's episode, Dr. Colleen Hill joins us to speak about some of the incredible objects in her exhibition Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities which is on view at The Museum at FIT through April 20. 2025. From the rare Victorian era sterling silver posey to the insatiable mind of Alexander McQueen, Fashioning Wonder is reminds us of the awe-inspiring power of fashion.
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April 16, 2025 • 53 mins
All this week we endeavor to spark your sartorial curiosity as Dr. Colleen Hill joins us to speak about her exhibition Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities which is on view at The Museum at FIT through April 20, 2025. In Part I, we delve into the history of the wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosity, during the 16th-early 18th centuries and learn about some of the types of fashion objects found in these collections, which a...
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April 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Welcome to the first Fashion History Now of Season 8, where we bring you the latest news fashion history happening today.
To Follow:
Cheeky fashion satire @refashionedhippie
Hair history @thehairhistorian, Five Medieval Hair Recipes
To Read:
A Brief History of Anrealage
The Many Lives of Gigi Hadid
Marion Morehouse, The World's First Supermodel
Rosita Missoni's Life in Pictures
To Watch:
Anrealage A/W 2025/26 runwa...
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April 9, 2025 • 54 mins
For our debut of Season 8 of Dressed, we bring you the first of our new ongoing series: Fashion Scandals. Today we whisk you into the scandal swirling around surrounding one of the most famous paintings in all of art history, John Singer Sargent's Madame X. We will meet the subject, the American-born Parisian It-Girl Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, and learn just how her appearance in Sargent's portrait shocked even the most jaded...
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March 31, 2025 • 54 mins
The final episode of our Barbie fashion history series explores Barbie's flowering into a fully fledged fashion icon in the 21st century and what that means in terms of diversity and representation for Barbie, in front of and behind the seams.
Recommended Reading:
Carol Spencer's Dressing Barbie
Dan Savage's Ken Comes Out (1993)
Barbie's Time Magazine Article (2016)
Barbie's Style Instagram
1985-2022 Well Known Designers o...
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March 28, 2025 • 51 mins
Barbie gets the full haute couture treatment in part two of our Barbie fashion history series from 2023 which takes us into the 1980s, a period that lays the foundation for her ascension into full fashion icon status.
Recommended Reading:
Ruth Handler's Dream Doll
Carol Spencer's Dressing Barbie
Robin Gerber's Barbie and Ruth
Black Barbie documentary
Independent article about the Black Barbie documentary
"Tracing the Hi...
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March 26, 2025 • 53 mins
Barbie is so much more than a child's toy. Since making her debut in 1959, the Barbie doll has become a full-fledged global phenomenon--and fashion icon. In this three part series from 2023, we explore the fashion history and cultural significance of the world's most famous doll and meet the fascinating figures behind her creation.
Recommended Reading:
Ruth Handler's Dream Doll
Carol Spencer's Dressing Barbie
Robin Gerber B...
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March 21, 2025 • 19 mins
This week, we revisit a 2021 episode where we explored the fascinating origins of "sailor" and "peter pan" style collars.
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March 19, 2025 • 50 mins
During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 episodes. Today we reair our 2019 episode with animal rights activist and vegan menswear designer Joshua Katcher who joined us to talk about his book Fashion Animals and the relationship between humans and the animals they wear.
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March 14, 2025 • 44 mins
In this episode we revisit our 2021 conversation with poet, performance artist, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon who discusses the beauty, importance and imperative of moving beyond the gender binary with the #DeGenderFashion movement.
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March 12, 2025 • 59 mins
In part one of a two-part conversation from 2021, poet, performance artist, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon joins us to discuss the history of sartorial gender codes and legislation, and the non-gender conforming individuals who dared to defy them.
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March 7, 2025 • 16 mins
During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 episodes. Today we revisit a 2019 episode where we answer a listener question about the history of seersucker, which leads us to a surprising discussion of etymology.
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March 5, 2025 • 60 mins
During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 shows including this 2020 conversation about how the ballerina has inspired many a fashion designer. Dance and fashion have long had a symbiotic relationship, and this week we speak to Patricia Mears about her sublimely beautiful exhibition which highlights the mutual love affair between ballet and high style.
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February 28, 2025 • 91 mins
In this episode from the Dressed Archive, we meet some of the muses of Ari Seth Cohen's Advanced Style and Advanced Love series who joined us in 2020 to share the myriad of lessons and philosophies they've learned from their many years of getting dressed in style.
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February 26, 2025 • 46 mins
Style knows no age. In part one of this two part episode from the Dressed Archive, photographer Ari Seth Cohen joins us to discuss Advanced Style, his street style blog turned international movement celebrating "the stylish senior set."
Ari's Advanced Style books:
Advanced Style
Advanced Style: Older and Wiser
Advanced Love
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February 21, 2025 • 18 mins
A quick hello from the Dressed Universe! While we are still on our winter hiatus, we wanted to check in to invite you to get Dressed with us in Paris, New York and online...
We have amazing fashion history tours open for registration now: 3 days in New York City April 9th-11th (and because Day 1 sold out, we added an extra date April 16th) and a once-in-a-lifetime 7 day tour of Paris June 29-July 6th.
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February 19, 2025 • 52 mins
During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog of more than 500 episodes. Today we revisit one of our earliest episodes from 2018 when we chatted with Dr. Colleen Darnell, renowned Egyptologist, author, educator and media personality for a fascinating look into the dress practices of one of history's most captivating civilizations, ancient Egypt.
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February 14, 2025 • 54 mins
Fashion luminary and trailblazing model, agent and activist Bethann Hardison joins us to discuss her life and legacy as explored in the new documentary Invisible Beauty.
More on the documentary Invisible Beauty
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Our Battle of Versailles interview with Robin Givan
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February 12, 2025 • 43 mins
This week we talk with fashion icon and fashion model pioneer Pat Cleveland about her fifty-plus year career in fashion.
Pat's memoir Walking with the Muses
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