Episode Synopsis "Fashioning the Fat, Female Body in the 20th and 21st Centuries: In Conversation with Lauren Downing Peters"

Katie Wilkes sits down with Dr. Downing Peters, Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at Columbia College Chicago. The two discuss Dr. Downing Peters' work, specifically her recent PhD research titled Stoutwear and the Discourses of Disorder: Constructing the Fat, Female Body in American Fashion in the Age of Standardization, 1915-1930.  

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