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SOURCE: Slate
3/24/2022
"Bridgerton" Keeps Perpetuating the Hollywood Corset Myth
by Hilary Davidson
Hollywood tends to portray women's historical fashions through a lens formed by today's ways of dressing, and ignore the more complex material and social history of clothing.
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4/3/2022
Ralph Lauren's HBCU Tribute Line is Part of a Long History of Fighting for Recognition through Fashion
by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
The designer's new collaboration with Morehouse and Spelman Colleges is more than a marketing ploy; it reflects the long history of Black college students (and Jewish tailors and designers) working to make the fashionable representation of the American ideal more inclusive.
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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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11/14/2021
Fashion and Freedom from Suffrage to AOC
by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Fashion, freedom, and American independence have been and are still connected to ideas of women’s rights and equality.
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SOURCE: Harper's Bazaar
3/8/2021
Socialite Mollie Moon Used Fashion Shows to Fund the Civil Rights Movement
by Tanisha C. Ford
Ebony Magazine's Fashion Fair offered a platform to Black designers while raising money for civil rights organizations – more than $60 million over a half-century.
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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: Untapped New York
5/6/2020
Learn About the Fashion History of NYC in New Documentary
“[The documentary] is about the history of fashion in NYC from sweatshops in LES to the heyday of the Garment District to independent designers across the five boroughs,” Ariel Viera said.
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SOURCE: The Scotsman (UK)
7-22-13
Harris Tweed was Cold War ‘uniform’ for CIA
WHILE British secret agents of the 1970s were portrayed on TV in tight blue jeans, shirts with huge collars, ludicrous wide ties and brown cardigans – a la The Professionals – their real-life equivalents on the other side of the Atlantic opted for … Harris Tweed.The American hero behind the Iran hostage rescue featured in the film Argo has revealed the fashion style of CIA agents during the Cold War as he was honoured for services to the famous Scots cloth.Tony Mendez was played in the Best Picture of the Year Oscar-winner by Ben Affleck, whose Harris Tweed jacket is giving the fabric its highest-profile Hollywood exposure in years.Former agent Mendez, speaking in New York, confirmed that the movie reflected reality and that Harris Tweed had been “part of what every agent wore” during his time in the service.....
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What Obama and Xi's Shirt Sleeves Summit Means
by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Though Xi loosened his tie in California, he’s shown no signs of loosening up on human rights issues back home.
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