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Whether it’s Lauren Sánchez’s commitment to tight-laced corsets or mainstream media reports that bloomers are officially back in fashion, unmentionables seem worthy of mention in this bonus episode, as Amy leads listeners through a bit of fashion history to explain who embraced the tortuous trends and which dress reformers loudly led the resistance. 

Mentioned in this episode:

Nora May French

The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America by Catherine Prendergast

HBO’s “The Gilded Age”

“Lauren Sánchez Bezos Commits to the Corset” by Vanessa Friedman

Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 9 on Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Amelia Bloomer

Elizabeth Smith Miller

Mary Wortley Montagu

“Death By Crinoline” by Karen Abbott from Wonders and Marvels (original link expired)

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