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  title info:
    title: Dressed in dreams
    sub title: a black girl's love letter to the power of fashion
  name:
    name part: Ford, Tanisha C.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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. Dressed in Dreams is a story of desire, access, conformity and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture, the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s, how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones and airbrushed paint and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion's power, especially in middle America. In this richly evocative narrative, she shares her lifelong fashion revolution, from figuring out her own personal style to discovering what makes Midwestern fashion a real thing too.
  table of contents: Dashiki -- Leather jacket -- Jheri curl -- Tennis shoes -- Baggy jeans -- Coochie cutters -- Knee-high boots -- Bamboo earrings -- Afro puff -- Hoodie.
  note: Tanisha C. Ford.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ford, Tanisha C
    topic: Clothing
  subject:
    topic: Clothing and dress
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Fashion
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: African American women
    topic: Clothing
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    topic: Race identity
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: African American college teachers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
  classification: GT615 .F67 2019
  classification: 391
  identifier: 9781250173539
  identifier: 1250173531
  identifier: 9781250173546 (ebook)
  identifier: 2019001794
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190117
    record change date: 20191021075804.0
    record identifier: in00004071175