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Author Ford, Tanisha C., author.

Title Dressed in dreams : a black girl's love letter to the power of fashion / Tanisha C. Ford.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  391.2 FORD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  391.223 FORD    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  391 FOR    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  391 FOR    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  391 FOR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  391 FORD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  391 FORD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - Adult Department  391 FO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 246 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Dashiki -- Leather jacket -- Jheri curl -- Tennis shoes -- Baggy jeans -- Coochie cutters -- Knee-high boots -- Bamboo earrings -- Afro puff -- Hoodie.
Summary In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. The history of these garments is deeply intertwined with Ford's story as a black girl coming of age in a Midwestern rust belt city. She experimented with the Jheri curl; discovered how wearing the wrong color tennis shoes at the roller rink during the drug and gang wars of the 1980s could get you beaten; and rocked oversized, brightly colored jeans and Timberlands at an elite boarding school where the white upper crust wore conservative wool shift dresses.
Subject Ford, Tanisha C. -- Clothing.
Clothing and dress -- United States.
Fashion -- United States.
African American women -- Clothing.
Black people -- Race identity -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
African American college teachers -- Biography.
African American college teachers. (OCoLC)fst00799112
African American women -- Clothing. (OCoLC)fst00799444
Black people. (OCoLC)fst00833880
Clothing and dress. (OCoLC)fst00864680
Fashion. (OCoLC)fst00921600
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 9781250173539 (hardcover)
1250173531 (hardcover)
9781250173546 (ebook)
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