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Episode —  № 349

July 21, 2025

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Tailcoats to Tan Suits: Presidential Fashion with Summer Anne Lee

Today’s episode threads history through the needle of style as we welcome our first-ever fashion historian, Summer Anne Lee. Based in Brooklyn and teaching at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Summer joins us to talk fashion and the wardrobes of America’s commanders-in-chief with her forthcoming book, Presidential Fashion: An Illustrated History, set to be published by Yale University Press.

Learn more: https://www.summerannelee.com/

As referenced: The Roaring Twenties and The Swinging Sixties:

https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/roaring-and-swinging.php

 

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Summer Anne Lee

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