clothing

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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.