The Clothes We Wore When

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 9, 2017

Emily Spivack, Brooklyn artist, writer, editor and the author of Worn in New York: 68 Sartorial Memoirs of the City (Harry N. Abrams, 2017), returns with stories people shared with her about significant only-in-New York moments in their lives and the clothes they were wearing. Mirah Zeitlyn, Brooklyn-based musician and songwriter, tells her sartorial encounter with a German Shepard while training for the New York City Marathon.

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