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  2. The influence of Black culture on fashion - AOL

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    WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 30: Lupita Nyong’o (L) attends the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Red Carpet Screening at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on ...

  3. Zoot suit - Wikipedia

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    African American man in zoot suit in the 1940s. A young Malcolm X, who wore zoot suits in his youth, described the zoot suit as: "a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats, and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell". [42] Zoot suits usually featured a watch chain dangling from the belt to the knee or below, then back to a side pocket.

  4. Zelda Wynn Valdes - Wikipedia

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    There was also a focus on bridging the divide between the black fashion world and the mainstream fashion industry. Label in dress (c.1940s) worn by Ella Fitzgerald. In the 1950s, she moved "Chez Zelda" to 151 57th Street in Midtown. [5] [11] [1] She had a staff of nine dressmakers and charged almost $1,000 per couture gown. [3]

  5. Hipster (1940s subculture) - Wikipedia

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    It was adopted more widely in African-American society and then later into the mainstream. This style of English dialect peaked in the 1940s. In 1938, jazz bandleader and singer Cab Calloway published the first dictionary by an African-American. This dictionary was specified for jive talk and other phrases that were popular amongst African ...

  6. Ann Cole Lowe: The trailblazing African American couturier

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    Anne Cole Lowe, known in fashion circles as Anne Lowe, was born in Clayton, Alabama, in 1898 to a family of African-American dressmakers. She was the great-granddaughter of an enslaved seamstress ...

  7. 1930–1945 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Actress Mary Pickford with President Herbert Hoover, 1931. The most characteristic North American fashion trend from the 1930s to 1945 was attention at the shoulder, with butterfly sleeves and banjo sleeves, and exaggerated shoulder pads for both men and women by the 1940s.

  8. Harlem Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1]

  9. Conk - Wikipedia

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    Conk hairstyle. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes.

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