Let's Party Like its 1889!: Etiquette of the Fête in Gilded Age New York (Dressed Classic)
We revisit one of our popular 'etiquette in history' episodes today and examine the complex social codes of party throwing and going in Gilded Age New York.
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Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis: an interview with Dr. Valerie Steele
It's Freud x fashion this week as Dr. Valerie Steele joins us to speak about her exhibition Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis which is currently on view at The Museum at FIT through January 4, 2026. The exhibition--which is the first of its kind--explores "key psychoanalytic concepts about the body, sexuality, and the unconscious," by way of 100 items of dress spanning more than 130 years of fashion history.
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Fashion Fads from History: Live on or Leave to the Past? (Dressed Classic)
In the wonderful and often bizarre world of fashion fads from history, we ask the question: which should live on to wear another day and which should be left to history?
Recommended resources:• Bedazzled Beetles• Hobble Skirt• Painted knees
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Dressed Diaries: Harper’s Bazar’s “The Follies of Fashion,” August 30th, 1884
This week, we investigate the historical fashion trends written about in an 1884 Harper’s Bazar article entitled “The Follies of Fashion.” Covering everything from Ancient Roman curling irons to Cleopatra’s donkey milk baths to “barbarous” steel corsets, we decipher fashion fact from fashion fiction.
Primary Sources
Box for rouge and patches, 1750-55
Jean de la Bruyère’s translation of The Characters of Theophrastus
Memoirs of Madame de la Tour de Pin
Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia
Secondary Sources:
Sarah Bendall’s Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell’s Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Donkey Milk article in Beverages
Micaela Higgs’s “The Entirely False History of Tricking Men with Makeup”
Kelly Olson’s “Fashion and Adornment,” in A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity
Valerie Steele’s The Corset: A Cultural History
Caroline Weber’s Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
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Fashioning the Guinness World Records with Benjamin Hollingum (Dressed Classic)
From the most toxic makeup in history to the world's first sunglasses, in this 2023 episode, we discuss all things fashion and Guinness World Records with Senior Editor Ben Hollingum.
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