clothing 
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SOURCE: Penguin
3/21/2023
Kate Strasdin Breaks Down Authenticity on Bridgerton and other Costume Dramas
A fashion historian examines the accuracy of costuming and other design elements of historical dramas like "Bridgerton."
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
10/11/2022
How 1880s Levi's Sold for $76K
Among the period-correct details establishing the provenance of the pants was an inner tag proclaiming the garments were made with only "white labor" in the era of Chinese exclusion.
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SOURCE: Thirteen
1/21/2022
Jeans: The History of the People's Pants Coming to American Experience
Denim touches the history of American slavery, immigration, industrialization and counterculture. An upcoming "American Experience" feature tells the story.
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SOURCE: Defector
5/28/2021
Photographer John Margolies' images of the Wildwood, NJ boardwalk are a peek into the past of the shore town and the history of the tacky beach t-shirt.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/8/2020
America’s Most Hated Garment
Atlantic writer Amanda Mull turns to fashion historians Marley Healy and Valerie Steele to place the growing social acceptance of sweatpants in a pattern of clothing standards changing in response to cultural influences and social conditions.
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SOURCE: Marketplace
7/14/2020
How Clothing Can be a ‘Tool of Resistance’
Professor Tanisha Ford discusses the ways that the clothing choices of civil rights activists in the past and today reflect change and continuity in protest movements.
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SOURCE: Vulture
11/25/19
In Watchmen's Clothing, the Past is Present
Watchmen is a story about history.
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