Fashion History Mystery #52: Driving Fashion

<p>This week we explore the symbiotic relationships between modern women, fashion, and cars at the dawn of the twentieth century.</p><p><strong>Recommended reading:</strong></p><ul> <li>Georgine Clarsen's Eat My Dust: Early Women Moderists</li> <li>Emily Remus's A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown</li> <li>A'Lelia Bundles's On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker</li> <li>Dorothy Levitt's 1909 guidebook <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Woman_and_the_Car/OkxVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Dorothy+Levitt+dedicated+an+entire+chapter+in+her+1909+book+The+Woman+and+the+Car&printsec=frontcover">https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Woman_and_the_Car/OkxVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Dorothy+Levitt+dedicated+an+entire+chapter+in+her+1909+book+The+Woman+and+the+Car&printsec=frontcover</a> </li> <li>FIDM's "Traveling Duster" blog: <a href="https://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2010/09/traveling-dusters.html">https://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2010/09/traveling-dusters.html</a> </li> </ul><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a> Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations

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