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Acervo de imagens que ilustram a relação da mulher negra com a moda ao decorrer das décadas. Collection of images that illustrate the relation of black women and fashion over the decades.

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This photograph is titled “Elks Fashion Show, 1956” but it’s odd to me that all the women are in bathing suits. I haven’t seen too many fashion shows in which bathing suits are the primary or exclusive garment featured. My guess is that this was really a local beauty pageant.

Source: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College archive in Alabama.

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1925

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Naomi Sims

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1950′s

[ofanotherfashion]

Well-dressed women going places - this is precisely the kind of image that adds to the romance of old New York and, more specifically, Penn Station (ca. 1942). I love it.

From the Black History Album

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Well-dressed women in New York’s Penn Station, circa 1942. 

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1969

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Hazel Scott

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1960

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Harlem Fashion Show, 1963

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Ruby Dee

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Naomi Sims, 1969, New York

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Claudinette Fouchard, 1950′s

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Halle Berry