Season 4
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 dressi…
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…
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, complica…
Episode 21: Adolescent Avatars: the power and powerlessness of costum…
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 e…
Episode 20: Your Culture, Their Costume? Fancy Dress and Cultural App…
In 2011, Teen Vogue drew attention to harmful consequences of insensitively chosen fancy dress costumes that reduce beliefs, cult…
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…
Episode 18: Ethereal Excess – Carlos de Beistegui’s Venetian Ball
Described, in all seriousness, as the ‘Ball of the Century’, the Beistegui Ball of 1951 was a fancy dress event like no other: th…
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…