Dressed: The History of Fashion

Rachel Hope Cleves joins us to discuss the incredible forty-four year love story of tailors Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake who were recognized and respected as a married couple in their small close knit community of Weybridge, Vermont in the nineteenth century. Recommended Reading: Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for part two of our interview with fashion historian Jessica Glasscock, author of the new book Making a Spectacle: A Fashionable History of Glasses.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly Frey, host of Stuff You Missed in History Cass, sits down with Yvonne So, one of the ten winners of Seneca Women to Hear: Search for the Next Great Female PodcastersSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fashion historian Jessica Glasscock joins us for a two-part episode on the fascinating, 750 year history of eyeglasses and eyewear. Jessica is the author of the new book Making a Spectacle: A Fashionable History of Glasses.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Making music with a sewing machine? LA-based artist Nicole Cooke sure does and joins us this week to talk about her deeply original compositions employing sewing machines as instruments and the theme of clothing in her work. Related Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaB6e7EGgr8 https://series-archive.com/collections/3-3-the-duchess-of-satin Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reporting on the exhibition itself as well as all of this year's red carpet looks, we discuss the 2022 Met Gala. Recommended Reading: https://www.vogue.com/article/in-ameica-an-anthology-of-fashion-exhibition https://www.vogue.com/article/hillary-clinton-met-gala-2022 https://www.vogue.com/article/sarah-jessica-parker-met-gala-2022 https://www.vogue.com/article/indigenous-designers-met-museum-lexicon-of-fashion https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-05-03/kim-kardashian-marilyn-monroe-dress-2022-met-gala-conservators  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week marks the upcoming Kentucky Derby and we chat with the featured milliner of the event about the history of millinery and its current relevance at the racetrack.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In celebration of the Met Gala 2021 and American design, we speak to Michael Sylvan Robinson, the textile artist and queer activist behind Jordan Roth's show-stopping collaged "coat of many colors" worn to last year's festivities. Robinson joins us to discuss their thought-provoking use of textiles, clothing and the (dis)embodied form to explore entangled themes of identity, sexuality, violence, and healing.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clothing in contemporary art is the subject of this week's episode as art historian Alexandra Schwartz joins us to speak about the exhibition Garmenting:  Costume as Contemporary Art which she guest curated for the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices