Season 4 · Episode 7
The Black Fashion Museum
A determined quest to save sartorial history
June 21, 202331m 20s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dts.podtrac.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
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