Articles of Interest
Avery TrufelmanArticles of Interest
Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear.
Produced and Hosted by Avery Trufelman
2022 Perisphere Productions
Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear.
Produced and Hosted by Avery Trufelman
2022 Perisphere Productions
Molly Rogers is not the kind of costume designer you might be imagining
A peak inside the palace
The theme for "Articles of Interest"
It all starts in the kids’ department.
To explore how plaid proliferated, we’ve got to go to Scotland.
Who can walk through the world comfortably and securely?
An authentic aloha shirt has an interesting story to tell.
You can learn a lot from observing an old pair of blue jeans.
Groups of people who historically haven’t had a voice have expressed themselves on their bodies, through their style, their hair, their tattoos, their piercings and what they wear.
In the wake of World War II, the government of France commissioned its most prominent designers to create a collection of miniature fashion dolls
Brands hold immense sway over both consumers and the American legal system. Few know this as well as Dapper Dan.
Perfume can be a key to a whole olfactory world
Formal menswear can be traced back to American Revolution, classical statuary, and one particular bloke bopping around downtown London way back in the 1770s.
Diamonds represent value, in all its multiple meanings: values, as in ethics, and value as in actual price. But what are these rocks actually worth?
The symbolism and weight of the white wedding dress
Articles of Interest Season 3 is coming. It's entirely devoted to one topic
"The only real trend is trendiness itself"
This is where Ivy started
Ivy starts to spread
Enter Ralph
The rise of The Preppy
Ivy grows on the street
The finale
Why can't we get dressed like Cher does?
The conundrum of the ballet shoe
How do we know how our clothes are made?
What a fake body can tell us about real clothes
Some good style advice
What's worn in an absence of choice
A determined quest to save sartorial history
How a designer worked behind the iron curtain
What is clothing without cloth?
A pattern of migration
Hail the wale
Why they get the cold shoulder
More more more!
Should we grow our own sweaters?
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A walk in someone else's footsteps
To live, to dye
Why we wear clothes, and why we're so afraid to take them off
A matter of faith
When did celebrities stop dressing themselves?
Men of the Cloth
They're not just for Catholic school girls anymore
The perpetual symbol of cool
The most unlikely invention
Coming soon
The American Military Uniform
The Field Jacket
The Lightweight Revolution
Make it Fashion
Camouflage
Gorpcore
The Military / Civilian Divide
A live conversation
It's not what you might think.
A dispatch from Minnesota
An Ode To Claire McCardell
And how the superrich don't pay either of them
They're not as high as they used to be
And the elusive people who make them
Hanfu and the new Chinese style
Or, why vanity is good
The real cost of knitting
An odd lesson in social climbing
How secondhand got normal
On loving the world
What a purse actually costs.
The Resale Revival
September 11, 202633min 54sec
How did used clothing lose its proverbial and literal stink?
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