Dressed: The History of Fashion

Recorded live at the Chicago History Museum, “librarian of clothing” Jessica Pushor [https://www.instagram.com/jessica_pushor/] takes us behind the seams of her exhibition Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective [https://bit.ly/3TrrDmI]. On view at the museum until July 27th, 2025, the exhibition celebrates the museum’s incredible 50,000+ fashion and textile collection, but also the many people who have shaped its existence for the past 100 years.  Recommended Listening: Jessica's two-part 2021 Dressed interview about Chicago fashion history can be listened to here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/id1350850605?i=1000511436878] and here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/id1350850605?i=1000511578663].  Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  * Our website [http://www.dressedhistory.com/] and classes [https://dressedhistory.com/classes-1] * Our Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dressed_podcast/?hl=en] * Our bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/shop/dressed] with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Dressed is a part of the AirWave Media [http://www.airwavemedia.com] network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

The Dressed Bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/lists/dressed-favs-and-featured-books] has over 150 fashion history titles and counting! This week, we highlight some our favorite recent additions. * Books discussed in the episode: * Azzedine Alaia: A Couturier’s Collection [https://bookshop.org/a/92055/9780500028131] * Claire McCardell:  The Designer Who Set Women Free [https://bookshop.org/a/92055/9781668045237] by Elizabeth Evitts Dickenson * Dress History of Korea: Critical Perspectives on Primary Sources [https://bookshop.org/a/92055/9781350143371], ed. Kyunghee Pyun and Minjee Kim * Fashion & Motherhood: Image, Material, Identity [https://bookshop.org/a/92055/9781350276697], ed. by Laura Snelgrove, Lauren Downing Peters and Darnell-Jamal Lisby * Fashion in American Life, [https://bookshop.org/a/92055/9781350331921] \ ed. Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters * Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty [https://bookshop.org/a/92055/9780300264586] by Margarette Lincoln * The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th Century Atlantic World [https://bookshop.org/a/92055/9781350293373] by Elisabeth Gernerd * The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch [https://quickthornbooks.com/products/the-red-dress-conversations-in-stitch] by Kirstie Macleod and voices from the embroidery project  Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  * Our website [http://www.dressedhistory.com/] and classes [https://dressedhistory.com/classes-1] * Our Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dressed_podcast/?hl=en] * Our bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/shop/dressed] with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Dressed is a part of the AirWave Media [http://www.airwavemedia.com] network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Is it pink for girls and blue for boys OR is it pink for boys and blue for girls?!! Professor Jo B. Paoletti, author of Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys From the Girls in America, joins us to discuss the history of childrenswear and the role clothing plays in children's developing concepts of gender. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  * Our ⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠ [http://www.dressedhistory.com/] and ⁠⁠⁠⁠classes⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://dressedhistory.com/classes-1] * Our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/dressed_podcast/?hl=en] * Our ⁠⁠⁠⁠bookshelf⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://bookshop.org/shop/dressed] with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Dressed is a part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠AirWave Media⁠⁠⁠⁠ [http://www.airwavemedia.com/] network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Fern Mallis joins us today to speak about her career which spans six decades of shaping, supporting and championing first American fashion, and later turning her expertise towards developing fashion weeks around the globe. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  * Our ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ [http://www.dressedhistory.com/] and ⁠⁠⁠classes⁠⁠⁠ [https://dressedhistory.com/classes-1] * Our ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/dressed_podcast/?hl=en] * Our ⁠⁠⁠bookshelf⁠⁠⁠ [https://bookshop.org/shop/dressed] with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Dressed is a part of the ⁠⁠⁠AirWave Media⁠⁠⁠ [http://www.airwavemedia.com/] network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Internationally beloved teacher, mentor, and fashion authority Tim Gunn returns to Dressed to discuss his sixteen seasons at Project Runway and the origins of his famous catchphrase "Make it work." Want More Tim Gunn: * Tim's Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/timgunn/?hl=en] * Tim's 2022 Dressed Interview [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/id1350850605?i=1000583824235] Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  * Our website [http://www.dressedhistory.com/] and classes [https://dressedhistory.com/classes-1] * Our Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dressed_podcast/?hl=en] * Our bookshelf [https://bookshop.org/shop/dressed] with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Dressed is a part of the AirWave Media [http://www.airwavemedia.com] network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]