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Articles of InterestSunglassesA fashion accessory turns into a medical necessity. Images and links at articlesofinterest.substack.com
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Articles of InterestSchool UniformsHow uniforms shaped the American school system. Images and a very special animation at articlesofinterest.substack.com
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Freedom of SpeciesHuman Hair & Sheep’s Wool: A Tale of Two TextilesIn today’s show, an introduction to the wool series, Betty and Trev respond to a podcast episode called ‘Wearing Hair’ from ‘Articles of Interest’ by Avery Trufelman. We discuss the concept of wearing human hair textiles as an alternative biomaterial as spearheaded by the Dutch company ‘Human Material Loop’ asking… is it vegan to wear human hair? We go on to unpack some of the inherent ethical issues with sheep’s wool as a material and critique the wool advocacy of author and knitting influencer, Clara Parkes. Music played: Hair – The Cowsills: https://archive.org/details/the-cowsills-hair. Lachlan Tigers – The Bushwackers Band (1977...2025-02-1600 min
Articles of InterestClergyWhat Catholic priests wear, and the insight it provides into what we laypeople wear. For images of what vestments look like and more, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
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Customer Service Podcast128. Geographic Style, Uniform Dressing, & Cassette Tapes (Interview with Avery Trufelman)Chase and Timothy talk with Avery Trufelman (Host of the podcast Articles of Interest) about geographic style, uniform dressing, & cassette tapes.
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Articles of InterestModestyWhy would God care what we wear? A tour through Islam, Mormonism, and Judaism, and all of their varying and overlapping commands. For more images and information, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2024-04-2448 min
Articles of InterestNuditySometimes it’s liberating to be naked. Sometimes it’s really really not.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2024-03-2049 min
Highlander PodcastAvery Trufelman | Host of Articles of Interest and a 2023 Outdoor Recreation Archive Fellow | Outdoor History Summit 2023Avery Trufelman, the creator of Articles Of Interest, and one of the 2023 Outdoor Recreation Archive Fellows, talks at the 2023 Outdoor History Summit about her research in the archive and some upcoming projects she’s excited about.
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Articles of InterestChromophobiaColor. Why we need it. Why we fear it. And where its future might lie.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2023-11-0847 min
Articles of InterestA Few Shoes [LIVE]On stage in Toronto, with the help of shoe designer Aurora James and shoe historian Elizabeth Semmelhack, we go over a few shoes- and what they say about ourselves and the world.
Images of all the shoes discussed are at articlesofinterest.substack.com
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Articles of InterestWearing HairYou and I both know this. The supply chain is super messed up. The way humans make clothing is deeply messed up. So should we just make garments made of human hair?
A very real question, with very real answers.
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Articles of InterestMore PocketsThis is a special re visit of one of my favorite stories: Pockets. Followed up by a special live interview with Hannah Carlson, author of the book Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close, to see what’s changed since the original episode came out.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2023-09-2736 min
Articles of InterestPlus SizesPlus-sized fashion seems to live in a separate trend cycle. There are different patterns, different cuts. And most notably, women’s shirts often have holes in their shoulders. And this separate plus-sized fashion universe reveals a lot about the way clothes are made and measured… and the way clothes dictate who is allowed to participate in public life.
This episode was made in collaboration with the show Weight For It. Links, images, and more at articlesofinterest.substack.com
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Articles of InterestThe Corduroy Appreciation ClubA secret society. A secret tradition. And a cloth that somehow lends itself to ritual.
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(I can’t believe that, fatefully, this is the 11th episode of the year.)
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Articles of InterestPaisleyHimanshu kept seeing paisley everywhere: from his home temple to his couch cushions to his mom’s pants. Some of these products were Indian but a lot weren’t. How did this pattern get embraced by the world?
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Articles of InterestPaper and RubberThis is about two examples of cloth-alternatives. One that went extinct. And one that’s very much alive.
This story deals with sex and sexuality. But in a fun way!
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2023-08-0239 min
Articles of InterestFashion Without CapitalismIn the 1980s, Budapest was not quite socialist and not quite capitalist, and there was one fashion designer who thrived in this moment.
This is the story of Tamás Király, an unusual artist from an unusual period of Hungarian history, both of which were unusually short-lived. Because Király was murdered in 2013.
Photos of Király and his designs are at https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2023-07-0540 min
Articles of InterestThe Black Fashion MuseumThe tricky thing about fashion is that, in order to preserve its history, you need to preserve physical garments. And, alas, closet space is finite, cloth gets sun-bleached and eaten by moths, and Americans notoriously do not care about their fashion heritage. So this is why one woman decided to put a call out across the country and make a scrappy archive all by herself.
This story was reported by Enya Hennings. Pictures, details and more at articlesofinterest.substack.com
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2023-06-2131 min
Articles of InterestPrison Uniforms (with Ear Hustle)Prison uniforms are not, in fact, uniform. There are so many types of clothes that are worn across different facilities… including … some prisons that don’t have uniforms at all.
This episode is a special collaboration between Articles Of Interest and Ear Hustle, dropping on both of our feeds. For images of the Broad Arrow, and to see a prison without uniforms, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2023-06-0749 min
Articles of InterestHow To DressThink of this mini episode as a tiny makeover in your ears.
Amy Smilovic, the founder of Tibi, has some of the best advice when it comes to gathering a wardrobe and putting outfits together. These are some of my favorite tips from Amy’s book, The Creative Pragmatist.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2023-05-2417 min
Articles of InterestOur Mannequins, OurselvesBehind the scenes at the Costume Institute, we see how long it really takes to dress a mannequin. And learn about a few famous mannequins from the past.
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2023-05-1033 min
Articles of InterestInside The FactoryOn the ten year anniversary of a horrible manufacturing disaster- a look at what has changed, what hasn’t, and the massive secret industry behind it all.
If you’d like to sign the petition from Clean Clothes Campaign, click here or head to articlesofinterest.substack.com for more links and resources on the audit industry and audit deception.
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Articles of InterestAmerican Ivy: Chapter 7I have a confession to make.
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Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional music from Rhae Royal
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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices2022-12-0739 min
Articles of InterestAmerican Ivy: Chapter 6As the 80s turns into the 90s, preppy is everywhere. All over the planet. In the United States AND Japan. And sure, preppy sort of morphs into business casual. But it also turns into something else. Something way more fashionable.
To see images, notes and full transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami...2022-11-3043 min
You're Wrong AboutWhere Have All the Preppies Gone? with Avery TrufelmanPut on your Docksiders for a stroll through history with Avery Trufelman, who shows us how Ivy style became “preppy,” and how preppy fashion escaped the campus and took over the world. We’re talking about clothing, class, race, and the American dream: you may be through with the polo shirt, but the polo shirt isn’t through with you.Here's where to find Avery:Articles of Interest on SubstackArticles of Interest podcastSupport us:Bonus Episodes on PatreonDonate on PaypalBuy cu...2022-11-281h 01
Articles of InterestAmerican Ivy: Chapter 5Ralph Lauren ascends. And so does a slender little joke book that no one expected to be a colossal, massive bestseller. Just in time for the secret fashion revolution of the 1980s that no one ever talks about.
To see images, notes, and full transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional...2022-11-2344 min
Articles of InterestAmerican Ivy: Chapter 4Ivy starts to go out of style, thanks to the counterculture (with a lot of help from corporate America). But Ivy finds an unlikely savior in a Jewish college dropout from the Bronx.
To see images, notes, and full transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional music from Rhae Royal
2022-11-1643 min
Articles of InterestAmerican Ivy: Chapter 3The look of the elite somehow becomes the look for everyone. And as more and more people are taking on Ivy, it only becomes cooler and cooler. Which goes against everything I thought I knew about trends.
To see images, notes, and full transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional music...2022-11-0943 min
Articles of InterestAmerican Ivy: Chapter 2So where does Ivy begin? The short answer: Princeton University. The long answer is a spiral that takes us from a 1940s Chinese prison camp, to the raucous party culture of 1920s London, to the docks of downtown New York City after The War of 1812.
To see images, notes and full transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
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Articles of InterestAmerican Ivy: Chapter 1A trend forecaster follows up on a trend report from 2016. A prominent fashion buyer tells me his trends for fall 2022. And I wonder why one particular trend, against all odds, seems to come back over and over again
To see the jeans of the future, along with more images, notes and transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
With album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
2022-10-2635 min