fashion

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/3/2023
  

  Zelensky's Attire in Congress Wasn't Slovenly, it was Strategic

  by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

  Zelensky, without military experience, has thread the needle between evoking patriotic fighting spirit and appropriating unearned military credibility with his much-discussed attire in Congress. His outfit is part of a long tradition of dress choices by world leaders. 

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• SOURCE: W
  12/13/2022
  

  The History of Fashion's Turn to Embracing Fakery

  Fashion historians Valerie Steele and Einav Rabinovitch-Fox explain the historic push and pull between designers and copycats, and how recent trends have blurred the lines between authenticity and fakeness and exclusivity and popular style. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/28/2022
  

  Will the Era of the Butt Ever End?

  Heather Radke's "Butts: A Backstory" isn't (just) a provocation, but a carefully researched study of how bodily ideals and attractiveness are constructed and reproduced in societies. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  8/17/2022
  

  Acceptance of Natural Hairstyles a Continuing Front in Civil Rights Struggle

  by Jasmine Nichole Cobb

  Recently signed legislation in Massachusetts prohibits workplaces and schools from banning many hairstyles associated with African Americans, showing that racism can work through sartorial standards to make opportunity and acceptance contingent on conformity to white norms. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/22/2022
  

  The New Army Tactical Brassiere Latest Episode of Military Connections with Fashion

  by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

  The move to create new undergarments reflects the military's recent efforts to incorporate a more diverse population of servicemembers, as well as a longstanding concern with managing the appearance of women in service. 

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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.

• 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.