The Black Fashion Museum

2023-06-21 · 31 min · episode 7 · 6 entities

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The tricky thing about fashion is that, in order to preserve its history, you need to preserve physical garments. And, alas, closet space is finite, cloth gets sun-bleached and eaten by moths, and Americans notoriously do not care about their fashion heritage. So this is why one woman decided to put a call out across the country and make a scrappy archive all by herself. This story was reported by Enya Hennings. Pictures, details and more at articlesofinterest.substack.com Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices