Articles of Interest

Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear.Produced and Hosted by Avery Trufelman

Episodes

Total: 42

The Memory Palace

2024/12/3

Nate Dimeo is a longtime radio hero of mine. And praises be, now he has a book out of his stories, c

Clergy

2024/5/22

What Catholic priests wear, and the insight it provides into what we laypeople wear. For images of w

In honor of the Met Gala, a special feature. This is an episode I produced with one of my favorite p

Modesty

2024/4/24

Why would God care what we wear? A tour through Islam, Mormonism, and Judaism, and all of their vary

Nudity

2024/3/20

Sometimes it’s liberating to be naked. Sometimes it’s really really not. Notes, links, and images a

Chromophobia

2023/11/8

Color. Why we need it. Why we fear it. And where its future might lie. Images and links at article

A Few Shoes [LIVE]

2023/10/25

On stage in Toronto, with the help of shoe designer Aurora James and shoe historian Elizabeth Semmel

Wearing Hair

2023/10/11

You and I both know this. The supply chain is super messed up. The way humans make clothing is deepl

More Pockets

2023/9/27

This is a special re visit of one of my favorite stories: Pockets. Followed up by a special live int

Plus Sizes

2023/9/13

Plus-sized fashion seems to live in a separate trend cycle. There are different patterns, different

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

Paisley

2023/8/16

Himanshu kept seeing paisley everywhere: from his home temple to his couch cushions to his mom’s pan

Paper and Rubber

2023/8/2

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

In the 1980s, Budapest was not quite socialist and not quite capitalist, and there was one fashion d

The Black Fashion Museum

2023/6/21

The tricky thing about fashion is that, in order to preserve its history, you need to preserve physi

Prison uniforms are not, in fact, uniform. There are so many types of clothes that are worn across d

How To Dress

2023/5/24

Think of this mini episode as a tiny makeover in your ears. Amy Smilovic, the founder of Tibi, has

Our Mannequins, Ourselves

2023/5/10

Behind the scenes at the Costume Institute, we see how long it really takes to dress a mannequin. An

Inside The Factory

2023/4/26

On the ten year anniversary of a horrible manufacturing disaster- a look at what has changed, what h

On Pointe

2023/4/12

The pointe shoe is a design that balances at the very tip of both tradition and innovation. What can