November 26th 2024
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Fashionably conscious children walk down the streets of Harlem, dressed to the nines, during the Harlem Renaissance era.
Check out the dapper threads of Claude McKay, a Jamaican poet best known for his novels and poems, including "If We Must Die"
Cab Calloway who became a star with his performances at the Cotton Club and his song "Minnie the Moocher" (1931).
The look was dramatic, sophisticated and classy during the Harlem Renaissance. And by the way, hats and gloves were an absolute must, darling!
Josephine Baker sashayed onto a Paris stage during the 1920s with a comic, yet sensual appeal that took Europe by storm. Famous for barely-there dresses and slick hair-dos, her exotic beauty generated nicknames "Black Venus," "Black Pearl" and "Creole Goddess."