Camara Dia Holloway
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Tidbit regarding dress at the Woman’s Building of the 1893 Columbian Exposition
While touching upon dress I only mention that we have a little Egyptian figure whose dress is “accordion pleated” from throat to feet; it also wears a little “accordion-pleated” cape. So the fashions and arts of dress come round. From “Art,” by Mrs. Emily Crawford in The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman’s Building,…
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Review | “Miss Anne in Harlem” by Carla Kaplan
‘Miss Anne in Harlem,’ by Carla Kaplan By MARTHA A. SANDWEISS Published: September 20, 2013 Time hasn’t been kind to the white women who participated in the Harlem Renaissance. As philanthropists and activists, authors and patrons, they sought a place for themselves in that remarkable outpouring of African-American art during the 1920s and ’30s. Some,…
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“Show me a dandy and I’ll show you a hero.”
Some images, websites, and thoughts I came across while I was contemplating dandyism this weekend: “It is a kind of cult of the ego which can still survive the pursuit of that form of happiness to be found in others, in woman for example; which can even survive what are called illusions. It is the…
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NYT: In search of a gay aesthetic
NYT: In search of a gay aesthetic Guy Trebay’s review of “A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk” exhibition at FIT.
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Avant Tut interest in all things Egyptian
Turns out that Simcox is the surname of Clara E. Simcox, aka Madame Simcox, a New York dressmaker. There isn’t a lot floating out there on the web about her but she is on my radar now.
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Puttin’ on the Ritz
Here are clips from the movies Puttin’ on the Ritz (1930) and the “Bojangles in Harlem” number in Swing Time (1935):
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Les Sapeurs
Here are links to additional information about the Sape, the dandy phenomenon in the two Congos: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/13/world/africa/congo-dandy-sapeur/index.html http://www.sabotagetimes.com/fashion-style/the-gentlemen-of-bakongo-and-their-cult-of-elegance/ You may also be interested in this article about the Herero of Namibia, who transformed the dress imposed on them by German colonial forces into a distinctive style: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/03/01/jim_naughten_documenting_the_herero_tribe_of_namibia_and_its_20th_century.html
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Black Fashion Museum Collection
Here is a link to a description of the collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture: http://www.nmaahc.si.edu/Collections/BlackFashion
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Fashion Designers Accused Of Racism In Letter
By Julee Wilson http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3880363?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000038 The moment has arrived — Bethann Hardison has finally launched her attack against fashion’s glaring diversity problem. The fashion insider-cum-activist and former model, on behalf of The Diversity Coalition, sent out four letters on Thursday to the governing bodies of Fashion Weeks in New York (Council of Fashion Designers of America),…
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Afterthought: Personal Obsessions
As you get to know me better, you will discover that I am always fascinated by people of African descent that pop out here and there in the footnotes of history. Going through my bookmarks I re-stumbled upon these portraits from the Royal Photographic Society. Sarah Forbes Bonetta was an orphaned African “princess” who became…
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