Episode 16: Aesthetes and the Avantgarde: Costume Balls at the Chelsea Arts Club

Episode 22: Fandoms & Self-Fashioning: Into the World of Cosplay: This week, Dress: Fancy speaks with Professor Therèsa M. Winge from Michigan State University to explore the compelling, complicated and challenging world of cosplay. A distinct form of fancy dress, cosplay is unique for enabling people to explore themse by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

56 min listen

Episode 33: Sirens’ Call: The Underwater World of Mermaids & Mermen: Dress: Fancy has yet to venture off-shore: until now. In this week’s aquatic-themed episode, Lucy introduces Ben to the complex and beautiful world of the merpeople, a diverse community who dress as mermaids and mermen to seek personal and communal fulf by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 16: Aesthetes and the Avantgarde: Costume Balls at the Chelsea Arts Club: In this special ‘on location’ episode, Lucy and Ben visit the archives of the Chelsea Arts Club to explore the creativity, chaos and controversy that was Chelsea Arts Club annual fancy dress ball. Illustrated invitations, letters of outrage and contem by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

31 min listen

Bonus Episode: Live at the Royal Academy: Join hosts Lucy Clayton & Dr Benjamin Wild live at the Royal Academy, as part of the RALates series for a discussion about Klimt, Schiele & the Viennese Secession - in this special, mini episode we explore the crossover between fashion, costume and the a by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 14: Hassle, Heartache, and Hagrid: Reflections on World Book Day: Love it or loath it, World Book Day has become an important date in family calendars as toddlers, teenagers and just about any other young person under an adult’s influence, is dressed up and decorated to resemble a character from literary fiction. The by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 12: Balls & Baubles – Jewellery at the Beistegui, Capote and Rothschild Costume Balls: In this Season’s finale, Lucy and Ben talk with Levi Higgs about the jewellery worn at three of the twentieth-century’s most lavish and exclusive costume balls. Following Dress: Fancy’s patron saint, Cecil Beaton, who attended each of these events, by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 19: The Campest Christmas Eva!: The pink carpet has been walked and Lucy and Ben reflect on the costume highs and lows of this year’s Met Gala held on 6 May 2019. Were the outfits sufficiently camp? Why is Ben falling out of love with Julianne Moore? And why is Lucy falling in love wi by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

49 min listen

Episode 18: Ethereal Excess – Carlos de Beistegui’s Venetian Ball by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 20: Your Culture, Their Costume? Fancy Dress and Cultural Appropriation: In 2011, Teen Vogue drew attention to harmful consequences of insensitively chosen fancy dress costumes that reduce beliefs, cultures and people to garish stereotypes. In previous episodes of Dress: Fancy, Lucy and Ben have considered the painful conseque by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

38 min listen

Bonus Episode - Lights, Camera, Gucci!: Gucci’s SS19 campaign is an unashamedly glitzy and joyous celebration of 1950s Americana, as relayed through Hollywood and Kodachrome photography. It also looks, and feels, a lot like fancy dress costume. In this mini episode, Lucy and Ben reflect on th by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

21 min listen

Episode 24: Carte Blanche - The Power of Dressing in White: Pristine, pure, powerful, peaceful: the meanings of white are many and various. It should occasion no surprise, then, that dressing in white (and its opposite, black) have long been a popular theme in costumed entertainments. Tracing the history of this c by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

38 min listen

Episode 46: Keep Your Distance: Fashion & Fantasy After the Pandemic by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 25: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: On Saturday 20 July, Dress: Fancy will be hosting a costumed parade at this year’s Royal Academy Summer Show Lates event. The theme, excitingly, is ‘Georgian Pleasure Garden’... To prepare for the festivities, Lucy and Ben provide an essential guide by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

45 min listen

Episode 29: Still Standing: The Costumes and Curation of Elton John: In an especially glittering episode, Lucy and Ben discuss the costumes (off stage and on) of the inimitable Rocket Man, Elton John. Reviewing the Star’s sartorial choices decade-by-decade, and comparing them to Julian Day’s interpretations in the rece by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

38 min listen

Episode 32: Shimmer & Shine: The Pearly Kings & Queens: London has many august traditions, but few are as beautiful, striking and good-natured as that of the Pearly Kings and Queens. Exploring the origins of the Pearlies, the meaning of their highly detailed, sparkly garments, Dress:Fancy were invited to atten by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

37 min listen

Episode 17: Camper Than Christmas? A Preview of the Met Gala Ball: Aside from Halloween, the only other date that gets Lucy and Ben excited is the first Monday in May, when the Metropolitan Museum, New York, hosts its gala ball to raise funds for its Costume Institute. Although not strictly a fancy dress event, the coutu by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

29 min listen

Bonus Episode - Live at the Royal Academy: The Costume Parade to the Secret Ballroom: In the second of two special episodes recorded live at the Royal Academy’s Klimt-Schiele Cabaret Night in January, follow Lucy and Ben as they talk with costumed revellers, lead the Academy’s first costume parade, and award some incredibly coveted ros by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

20 min listen

Episode 23: Going Batty – A Costumed History of Bats: If you were to think of your costumed alter-ego as a creature, it’s unlikely you’d immediately conjure an image of a bat, and yet as this super niche episode demonstrates, bats have long been – and continue to be – popular subjects for dressing up by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

37 min listen

Bonus Episode: Sweating It Out – Reflections on the Christmas Sweater: Fancy dress may be inherently unfashionable but it has found a home in the seasonal wardrobe of many people the world over – the British in particular – in the form of the Christmas sweater. On 14 December, Save the Children encourage mass festive swe by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 34: Gender Bender: Behind the Seams with Craig Green: Gender Bender: Behind the Seams with Craig Green. In this week’s episode, Lucy and Ben begin a new mini-series that looks in-depth at the work of fashion designers whose clothing engages with themes we regularly explore through costume; chiefly identity by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

28 min listen

Episode 27: Indulging Imaginations: Picnicking with the Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society: In Pride and Prejuduce Jane Austen extolled the virtues of indulging the imagination ‘in every possible way’. With this in mind, Lucy and Ben joined members of the Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society (JAPAS) for a costumed picnic at the Nationa by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

46 min listen

Episode 26: Stylish Sketches: Manga Lates at the British Museum: Lucy and Ben record live from the front row at the British Museum, listening in on Grayson Perry as he talks with Kensai Yamamoto, and dissecting the fashion and cosplay catwalks inspired by the Museum’s current, must-see Manga exhibition. Interviews wi by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

30 min listen

Episode 21: Adolescent Avatars: the power and powerlessness of costumed children: Children playing dress-up is age-old and innocent. Or is it? Lucy and Ben go behind the seams to consider if children really do enjoy fancy dress as much the coaxed smiles in family photos suggest. Are these kids really avatars, conduits for the adults in by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

48 min listen

Episode 15: The Wonderful World of Weldon’s, Or How to Hire the Best Costume: The adage, ‘They don’t make them like they used to’, is especially apt for the object at the centre of this week’s episode: a fancy dress catalogue from London costume supplier Weldon’s. Join Lucy and Ben as they leaf through the illustrated... by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

21 min listen

Episode 36: Pharaohnic Fashion: Egypt, Art Deco and Costume: Lucy talks with Egyptologists Dr Colleen Darnell and Professor John Darnell (@vintage_egyptologist) to reflect on the enduring cultural and sartorial appeal of the land and history of Tutankhamen. From rampant consumerism to studied attention to detail, t by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 30: Fancy That! Dressing Up Comes of Age: In this indulgent, nostalgic birthday episode, Lucy & Ben review a year’s worth of super-niche, sequinned dressing up stories. Talking about the podcast’s origins, they revisit their favourite episodes and re-live their most exciting excursions. The s by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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In Intimate Detail: Everything you need to know about lingerie with Cora Harrington and Lucy Clayton: For the first time, in this episode of DRESS:FANCY we’re taking OFF our clothes to uncover what lies beneath... Guest Cora Harrington is an American writer and commentator widely recognised as one of the foremost authorities on the subject of... by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 40: New Kids on the Block: Exploring New York’s Club Kids by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Dressing for Laughs: Comedy in Costume: This episode puts the gags front and centre. We don’t mean the effortless banter between Lucy and Ben, or her relentless teasing of him (which is only funny for one!), but the laughter and joy that is inherent in dressing up. From the trope of the... by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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Episode 31: Little Podcast of Horror: Little Podcast of Horror: Season Six commences on the year’s biggest day for fancy dress: Halloween! Always looking to raise the costume stakes, Lucy and Ben consider costume inspiration from some unlikely sources, including the Pre-Raphaelites, Audrey by Dress: Fancy: The Podcast About Dressing Up

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