Camara Dia Holloway
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Rules for Ladies’ Trains: 1868
Originally posted on Mrs Daffodil Digresses: A truly expressive train in “The First Cloud,” by Sir William Quiller, 1887 Tate Britain. A bride in Washington lately introduced the style of having her train borne by three pages. An exchange says if this fashion should spread, courting a young lady would be like reading a novel.…
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Costume Design and Fashion: A Multi-Million Dollar Industry
http://clothesonfilm.com/costume-design-and-fashion-a-multi-million-dollar-industry/31155/
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Enduring Afrochic
I have a perpetual love/hate relationship with the love/theft of Africa and blackness, which is why I write about it. Afrochic, the name I have given to African/black-influenced Western clothing, is a trend that has considerable longevity. Now, Beyonce gets in on the act, again: Beyonce’s appropriation of this mode, though, is definitely in my…
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Magnificent Girls in Their Flying Machines – AMELIA EARHART: FLIGHT FASHION by Amber Jane Butchart
Hush-Kit Aviation World In an attempt to fight the online plagiarism we suffering this artcile has been moved to here. View original post
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No People Like Show People: Vesta Tilley and the Tuxedo
Female dandyism – especially tuxedo drag – explored in the introduction of my book Afrochic.
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Ready for My Close Up: Anna May Wong
The heroine of the introduction to my book Afrochic: Anna May Wong.
CAMARA DIA HOLLOWAY 