by CCash | Sep 21, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Long before fashion magazines, personal style blogs, or carefully curated social media feeds, a 16th century German accountant named Matthäus Schwarz was documenting his wardrobe in extraordinary detail. Between 1520 and 1560, Schwarz commissioned artists...
by CCash | Jun 29, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck has a line that says “And now they never meet in grove or green, By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen…” In Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio uses this term again saying, “What stars do spangle heaven...
by CCash | Jun 8, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Shakespeare is famous for his costume changes in his plays, including characters that swap genders and seemingly fool the world as their true identity simply by a change of clothes. Since Shakespeare’s playing companies were all male, and still manage to portray some...
by CCash | May 25, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s plays, he uses the word “gauntlet” a total of 6 times. In one instance, the stage directions declare that a character “throws down his gauntlet.” In Hamlet, stage directions again refer to a gauntlet by saying that attendants bring “foils...
by CCash | Sep 1, 2025 | Alls Well That Ends Well, Blog, Podcast Episodes
with John Kuhn Faith there’s a dozen of ’em, with delicate fine hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head and nod at every man. – Alls Well That Ends Well (IV.5) Shakespeare’s plays often referenced fashion and feathers, including one...
