Articles of Interest

I promise, this has to do with clothes. 

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The Archie comic book characters became serious fashion icons, but it all happened through a series of accidents. 

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The USA is a young country, but our fashion design is even younger. Like who are the titans of American fashion design? It’s Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren...these designers who are all still alive.

And if you want to look at where these titans of American fashion design got it all from, there was a great American fashion designer who many of them were looking towards. 

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Zoe's dad made a bra that changed the world. Will it change her?

A feature from my friends over at the audio magazine Signal Hill

Pastor Zach never liked to wear a clerical collar. Suddenly, he finds himself wearing one all the time. 

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What role does fashion have in a time of crisis? This is one of my favorite stories I've ever made. But there have been some updates since it came out. 

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This is one of the best pieces of fashion reporting I have ever heard: it's a reworked version of a story that originally aired on the NPR podcast Planet Money. 

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A recording of an intimate conversation at Ludlow House, where the venerable Jad Abumrad asked me some questions about Gear. 

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Soldiers and civilians live in different Americas. But we don't have to. 

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"Gorpcore" emerges.... from (maybe, potentially) unexpected places. 

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