Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, "Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
New Books in Popular Culture
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The Change of the Flapper Girls Skirts
Fashion is a way for them to participate in this new youth culture that they want to be of. But it's also against kind of, like more the elders and more conservative forces in the black community. They say, no, we have the right to do it. That doesn't makes us promiscuous. We're part of being an american. Why we can wear a what we want, a, and be in fashion and be equal to our white peers without kind of threatening the community itself.
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