Why would God care what we wear? A tour through Islam, Mormonism, and Judaism, and all of their varying and overlapping commands. 

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Sometimes it’s liberating to be naked. Sometimes it’s really really not.

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Color. Why we need it. Why we fear it. And where its future might lie.

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On stage in Toronto, with the help of shoe designer Aurora James and shoe historian Elizabeth Semmelhack, we go over a few shoes- and what they say about ourselves and the world.

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You and I both know this. The supply chain is super messed up. The way humans make clothing is deeply messed up. So should we just make garments made of human hair?

A very real question, with very real answers.

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This is a special re visit of one of my favorite stories: Pockets. Followed up by a special live interview with Hannah Carlson, author of the book Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close, to see what’s changed since the original episode came out.

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Plus-sized fashion seems to live in a separate trend cycle. There are different patterns, different cuts. And most notably, women’s shirts often have holes in their shoulders. And this separate plus-sized fashion universe reveals a lot about the way clothes are made and measured… and the way clothes dictate who is allowed to participate in public life.

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A secret society. A secret tradition. And a cloth that somehow lends itself to ritual.

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(I can’t believe that, fatefully, this is the 11th episode of the year.)

Himanshu kept seeing paisley everywhere: from his home temple to his couch cushions to his mom’s pants. Some of these products were Indian but a lot weren’t. How did this pattern get embraced by the world?

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This is about two examples of cloth-alternatives. One that went extinct. And one that’s very much alive.

This story deals with sex and sexuality. But in a fun way!

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In the 1980s, Budapest was not quite socialist and not quite capitalist, and there was one fashion designer who thrived in this moment.

This is the story of Tamás Király, an unusual artist from an unusual period of Hungarian history, both of which were unusually short-lived. Because Király was murdered in 2013.

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