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Articles of Interest

Avery Trufelman

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
24hr 34min
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The theme for "Articles of Interest"
March 18, 20192min 36sec2.63 MB
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It all starts in the kids’ department.
December 6, 201823min 43sec22.78 MB
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To explore how plaid proliferated, we’ve got to go to Scotland.
December 7, 201818min 55sec18.52 MB
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Who can walk through the world comfortably and securely?
December 8, 201821min 13sec20.73 MB
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An authentic aloha shirt has an interesting story to tell.
December 9, 201823min 18sec22.72 MB
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You can learn a lot from observing an old pair of blue jeans.
December 10, 201826min 5sec25.34 MB
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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.
December 11, 201830min 48sec29.93 MB
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In the wake of World War II, the government of France commissioned its most prominent designers to create a collection of miniature fashion dolls
June 22, 202039min 52sec38.63 MB
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Brands hold immense sway over both consumers and the American legal system. Few know this as well as Dapper Dan.
June 23, 202031min30.12 MB
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Perfume can be a key to a whole olfactory world
June 24, 202029min 44sec28.9 MB
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Formal menswear can be traced back to American Revolution, classical statuary, and one particular bloke bopping around downtown London way back in the 1770s.
June 25, 202032min 25sec31.49 MB
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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?
June 26, 202031min 16sec30.38 MB
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The symbolism and weight of the white wedding dress
June 27, 202028min 51sec28.05 MB
Thumbnail for "American Ivy: Prologue ".
Articles of Interest Season 3 is coming. It's entirely devoted to one topic
October 12, 20224min 15sec10.21 MB
Thumbnail for "American Ivy: Chapter 1".
"The only real trend is trendiness itself"
October 26, 202235min 15sec84.62 MB
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This is where Ivy started
November 2, 202244min 54sec107.8 MB
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Ivy starts to spread
November 9, 202243min 32sec104.52 MB
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Enter Ralph
November 16, 202243min 59sec105.59 MB
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The rise of The Preppy
November 23, 202244min 53sec107.73 MB
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Ivy grows on the street
November 30, 202243min 14sec103.76 MB
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The finale
December 7, 202239min 4sec93.78 MB
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Why can't we get dressed like Cher does?
March 29, 202332min 49sec78.79 MB
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The conundrum of the ballet shoe
April 12, 202339min 55sec95.84 MB
Thumbnail for "Inside The Factory".
How do we know how our clothes are made?
April 26, 202342min 12sec101.29 MB
Thumbnail for "Our Mannequins, Ourselves".
What a fake body can tell us about real clothes
May 10, 202333min 46sec81.06 MB
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Some good style advice
May 24, 202317min 43sec42.53 MB
Thumbnail for "Prison Uniforms (with Ear Hustle)".
What's worn in an absence of choice
June 7, 202349min 58sec47.98 MB
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A determined quest to save sartorial history
June 21, 202331min 20sec75.21 MB
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How a designer worked behind the iron curtain
July 5, 202340min 46sec97.84 MB
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What is clothing without cloth?
August 2, 202339min 32sec94.92 MB
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A pattern of migration
August 16, 202340min 3sec96.14 MB
Thumbnail for "The Corduroy Appreciation Club".
Hail the wale
August 30, 202352min 16sec125.48 MB
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Why they get the cold shoulder
September 13, 202344min 33sec106.93 MB
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More more more!
September 27, 202336min 49sec88.37 MB
Thumbnail for "Wearing Hair".
Should we grow our own sweaters?
October 11, 202336min 52sec88.49 MB
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A walk in someone else's footsteps
October 25, 20231hr 4min154.81 MB
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To live, to dye
November 8, 202347min 29sec114 MB
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Why we wear clothes, and why we're so afraid to take them off
March 20, 202449min 11sec117.98 MB
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A matter of faith
April 24, 202448min 58sec117.46 MB
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When did celebrities stop dressing themselves?
May 6, 202436min 7sec86.62 MB
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Men of the Cloth
May 22, 202450min 48sec121.85 MB

The Black Fashion Museum

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June 21, 202331min 20sec

The 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

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The Black Fashion Museum
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