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Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

by Monica L. Miller

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Black dandy style across three centuries

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Black dandy style across three centuries

Monica L. Miller examines Black dandy fashion through its changing meanings in art, literature, and dress. The book connects contemporary hip-hop and street style with earlier uses of menswear during the Harlem Renaissance and civil rights movement, where clothing could serve as creative and political expression. It also traces dandyism to the imposed dress of servants and enslaved people, placing fashion within histories of power as well as self-presentation. Organized around ideas including presence, distinction, disguise, and respectability, the book brings together perspectives from Black voices in fashion, literature, and art.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in Black cultural history and fashion.
  • For readers exploring the connections between clothing, art, and literature.
  • For readers interested in the Harlem Renaissance, civil rights movement, and contemporary style.

Themes

Black dandyismFashion and self-presentationClothing, power, and social statusArt and literatureCreative and political agency

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Book overview

This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant, complicated legacy of a recognizable yet constantly shifting style, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe to the contemporary art and fashion worlds

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style traces the complex and vibrant legacy of menswear across three centuries of Black culture--from today's hip-hop aesthetic and popular street trends, through its use during the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement as a symbol of creative and political agency, to its surprising origins as an imposed uniform for servants and enslaved people. Organized by key characteristics of dandyism that resonate across time, including presence, distinction, disguise, and respectability, this fresh interpretation of a centuries-old aesthetic draws on prominent Black voices in fashion, literature, and art--among them, Dandy Wellington, Amy Sherald, Ik
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