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