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Episode 18: Richard Thompson Ford on Fashion, Law, and Social Change
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Episode 18: Richard Thompson Ford on Fashion, Law, and Social Change

Fashion matters. Clothes both tell a story about power, prestige, and privilege, and can serve as important means of critiquing and subverting these very same things. Richard Thompson Ford joins host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, along with his new book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History.


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Persuasion
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Biweekly conversations between Richard Aldous, Bard College professor and distinguished historian, and authors on their newest books.