Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPower of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats, an interview with Clarissa Esguerra (Dressed Classic)
Season 8 Episode 68
We return to a 2019 interview with Clarissa Esguerra, Curator of Textiles and Costume at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), who taught us all…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Claire McCardell: The Girl Who Defied Dior, Part II
Season 8 Episode 254
In part-two of our 2022 exploration of the career of American fashion designer Claire McCardell, we discuss her work during WWII which yielded some o…
8 months ago
Claire McCardell: The Girl Who Defied Dior, Part I
Season 8 Episode 253
Called the "designer's designer," Claire McCardell turned the American fashion industry on its head starting in the 1930s with her fresh modern take …
8 months ago
Navajo Weaving: Art, History, Practice with Lynda Teller Pete, Barbara Teller Ornelas and Hadley Jensen, Part II (Dressed Classic)
Season 8 Episode 305
Fifth generation Diné (Navajo) weavers Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas have been instrumental in rewriting the history and narrative sur…
8 months, 1 week ago
Navajo Weaving: Art, History, Practice with Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas, Part I (Dressed Classic)
Season 8 Episode 304
This week we travel into the Dressed archive to revisit a two-part episode on the sacred cultural practice and art form of Diné (Navajo) weaving with…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Gilded Age "Dudes" of Fashion, Part II (Dressed Classic)
Season 8 Episode 273
In part two of our 2022 two-part episode, we continue our deep dive into the inner fashion sanctoms of nineteenth century "dudedom," exploring everyt…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Gilded Age "Dudes" of Fashion, Part I (Dressed Classic)
Season 8 Episode 272
In this two-part episode from 2022, we travel back in time to a bygone era when "dude" meant "dandy" and learn all about the now lost fashionable con…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Fashioning the Gilded Age: Tariffs, Thieves, and TV with Dr. Elizabeth L. Block (Dressed Classic)
Season 8 Episode 329
Nothing gets between a woman and her fashion! Dr. Elizabeth Block joins us for part two of our 2023 episode on Gilded Age fashion in a discussion on …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Fashioning the Gilded Age: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion with Dr. Elizabeth Block (Dressed Classic)
Season 8 Episode 328
French haute couturiers reigned supreme during the late 19th and 20th centuries--but they did not achieve this status on their own. This week we revi…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
An Interview with "Gernreich Girl" Barbara Flood (Dressed Classic)
Season 8
In this 2021 episode, Barbara Flood joined us to discuss her passion for fashion that spans her 1960s and 70s modeling career as a "Gernreich Girl" i…
8 months, 4 weeks ago