Historian <a href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/amanda-wunder">Amanda Wunder</a> joins us to discuss her new exhibition <a href="https://hispanicsociety.org/exhibition/spanish-style-fashion-illuminated-1550-1700/">Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1770</a>, on view at The Hispanic Society Museum &amp; Library until March 22nd, 2026. In addition to royal portraits, life-size sculptures, and sumptuous textiles and jewelry, the exhibition centers around sixteen rarely seen illuminated manuscripts known as cartas ejecutorias or “letters of nobility. Collectively, these objects reveal how upwardly mobile men and women used fashion as a reflection of status, identity, and power in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain.
 
Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? 
<ul>
 <li>Our <a href="http://www.dressedhistory.com/">⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠</a> and <a href="https://dressedhistory.com/classes-1">⁠⁠⁠classes⁠⁠⁠</a>
</li>
 <li>Our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dressed_podcast/?hl=en">⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠</a>
</li>
 <li>Our <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/dressed">⁠⁠⁠bookshelf⁠⁠⁠</a> with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles</li>
</ul>
 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez with Amanda Wunder, Part I (Dressed Classic)

With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day we all get dressed. Join Dressed as we explore the social and cultural histories behind the who, what, when of why we wear.