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Mar 2022
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Beyond the Best Dressed: A Cultural Hist...

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Are you red carpet ready Dressed listeners? This week entertainment writer and cultural historian Esther Zuckerman joins us to talk about Oscar fashion history.

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  • Zuckerman, Esther. Beyond the Best Dressed: A Cultural History of the Most Glamorous, Radical and Scandalous Oscar Fashion. Running Press: New York, NY, 2022.


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