When clothing is understandable, it references a world and a set of meanings. I think for a long time, we have been dressing in reference to one particular world. Everybody wears IV because there's a certain section of IV that's just clothes. A Oxford button down is just a dress shirt. This is why no one calls it IV. And no one really uses the word preppy.
Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear. Host and producer Avery Trufelman investigates our collectively held beliefs about fashion and explores topics like the intellectual property law behind knockoffs, creation of tartan and the history of plaid, and how a dolls in a rural museum in Washington state saved French haute couture. This new season investigates a style that keeps coming back again and again and again.
Previously part of 99% Invisible, the show is now an independent production and a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.