Dressed: The History of Fashion

From Sappho to Stonewall-and-beyond, this week we explore than 2,600 years of lesbian fashion history as Eleanor Medhurst joins us to discuss her recently released book Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles 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 we celebrate six years and 500 episodes of Dressed with a live, two part podcast event featuring surprise past Dressed guests and our beloved listeners. Past Dressed guests in order of appearance for part II of this episode:From Basic Instinct to Bridgerton, a Conversation with Ellen MirojnickThe Art and Activism of Dress with Michael Sylvan RobinsonEthics and Responsibility in the Jewelry Industry, an interview with Bliss LauFashioning the Gilded Age: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion with Dr. Elizabeth Block, part I and part IIFashion Period. An Interview with Dr. Shannon WithycombePlanning a trip to Paris? You don't want to miss one of our friend Rebecca Devaney's Textile Tours of Paris!!!Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles 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 we celebrate six years and 500 episodes of Dressed with a live, two part podcast event featuring surprise past Dressed guests and our beloved listeners. Past Dressed guests in order of appearance: Chicago's Fashionable Past with Jessica Pushor, Part I and Part II Living History: An interview with Cheyney McKnight, Part I and Part II FHN #23 Cutting Portraits with Silhouette Artist Charles Burns A Life Lived in Fashion with Halston Model, Muse and Archivist Chris Royer, Part I and Part II The Battle of Versailles: 50 Years Later with "Halstonette" Chris Royer Some highlights from 500 episodes of Dressed: Biba, an interview with Barbara Hulanicki and Martin Pel The King of Sexy Cling, an interview with Stephen Burrows Sonia Delaunay: The Art of Everything, an interview with Waleria Dorogova, Part I and Part II Beach Pajamas: From Sleepwear to Sportswear, an interview with Janine D'Agati and Hannah Schiff Sporting Fashion: An interview with Christina Johnson and Kevin Jones, Part I and Part II The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of America, an interview with Ilise S. Carter, Part I and Part II Gordon Parks: The Man of Many Hats Fashioning the Philippines: Salvacion Lim Higgins, An Interview with Mark Lewis Higgins The Joy of Fashion, an Interview with Pat Cleveland The Magic of 1970s Fashion with Pat Cleveland, Part I and Part II In Memoriam, Dressed’s guests we’ve lost Supreme Glamour, an Interview with Mary Wilson Fashion Oracle: Trend Forecasting to Paper Dolls with David Wolfe Finding Beauty, an Interview with Photographer Tony Vaccaro Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion history titles 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, we are joined by theo tyson and Emily Stoehrer, the co-curators of the MFA Boston's current exhibition Dress Up, which celebrates the equally significant role that dress and jewelry play in the deeply personal act and art of dressing up.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion history titles Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In part II of our episode on The Met's exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, we chat with Associate Conservator Elizabeth Shaeffer and Collections Specialist Bethany Gingrich about their roles at The Costume Institute and the hidden labor that goes into mounting blockbuster fashion exhibitions.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Bolton joins us in part I of this two-part episode exploring The Metropolitan Museum of Art's blockbuster exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. With more than 220 objects--all united under the theme of the natural world--the show seeks to evoke the sensory and ephemeral nature of fashion.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian Amanda Wunder joins us in a two-part episode that illuminates the remarkable life and work of Mateo Aguado, royal court tailor to the Queens of Spain from 1630 to 1672. Aguado is the subject at the heart of her book Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV. Further learning:Sofía Rodríguez Bernis's article "Where Clothing was Kept," in Spanish Fashion at the Courts of Early Modern EuropeWant more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion history titles Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian Amanda Wunder joins us in a two-part episode that illuminates the remarkable life and work of Mateo Aguado, royal court tailor to the Queens of Spain from 1630 to 1672. Aguado is the subject at the heart of her book Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV.  Further learning:Sofía Rodríguez Bernis's article "Where Clothing was Kept," in Spanish Fashion at the Courts of Early Modern EuropeWant more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion history titles Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we explore one of the most fabulous parties New York City has ever seen, Truman Capote's Black and White Ball. Held at The Plaza hotel on November 28, 1966 as a masked fancy dress ball with a strict dress code of black and white, Capote gathered together a global coterie of artists, intellectuals, politicians and the international jet set for one of the most sought-after invitations of the 20th century.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 140 of our favorite fashion history titles Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penelope Tree, one of the most iconic faces in modeling history, joins us to speak about her recently released novel, Piece of My Heart, a fictionalized account of Tree’s own life, loves and meteoric rise to success as an international It Girl during the late 1960s and early 1970s.Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 140 of our favorite fashion history titles Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices