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Feb 2023
51m 5s

Designs Through the Decades Part 1

Alice Lane
About this episode
This is something we’ve had on the list to do for a very long time. There’s so much to talk about because we’ve just seen so many things come and go through the ages. We talk about each of the decades and kind of what influenced them to be in fashion at the time. We do this for fashion interiors, and then Cori throws in some things about music that happened ... Show More
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