Costume Council
The Costume Council Presents | “Dressed: The History of Fashion” Live Podcast Recording
Date
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark St.
Chicago,
IL
60614
United States
Named “the golden standard in fashion podcasting” by Vogue, Dressed: The History of Fashion is one of the top fashion history podcasts in the world with over 20 million downloads and 500+ episodes across seven seasons. The award-nominated series examines the incredibly rich and complex histories behind the clothes we wear.
Following their annual meeting, the Costume Council of the Chicago History Museum invites you to a live recording of Dressed featuring host Cassidy Zachary with special guest CHM costume collection manager Jessica Pushor, as they discuss the exhibition Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective.
Past notable guests include model Pat Cleveland, TV personality Tim Gunn, Pulitzer-prize winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan, RuPaul’s long-time costume designer Zaldy, Miss Mary Wilson of The Supremes, and legendary fashion designers Normal Kamali and Barbara Hulanicki. Dressed’s two-part interview with Jessica Pushor about the Chicago History Museum’s Costume and Textile Collection remains one of the show’s most popular.
$80; $60 Costume Council members
Questions? Contact Nell McKeown at mckeown@chicagohistory.org or (312) 799-2112.
Schedule
5:30 p.m. – Costume Council annual meeting (members only)
6:30 p.m. – Live recording of Dressed: The History of Fashion
7:30 p.m. – Reception with drinks & light bites
8:00 p.m. – Evening concludes
Speakers
Cassidy Zachary is a fashion historian, published author, and professional podcaster. Her work can be found in Vogue, The New York Times, and WWD among many publications. She is the founder of the popular blog turned Instagram account @The_Art_of_Dress, where every week she shares her passion for fashion history with over 300,000 followers around the globe. In addition to coauthoring the book Fashion and the Art of Pochoir, she has contributed to numerous publications on fashion history and has lectured on the topic throughout the United States. She is currently pursuing her PhD in history at the University of New Mexico where she is studying the relationship between fashion, race, and identity in the American Southwest.
Jessica Pushor has served as the Collection Manager of the Costume and Textile Collection at the Chicago History Museum since 2014. In addition to being the caretaker for an estimated 50,000-piece collection, Jessica has also cocurated the 2022 fashion exhibition Treasured Ten: Selections from the Costume Collection and cocurated the current exhibition Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Jessica received her BA in art history from the University of Arizona and has an associate degree in fashion design. In 2013, Jessica earned her MA in Fashion and Textile Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.