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We Wore What? Centuries of Global Fashion as a System of Power Seydou Keita’s “Untitled, #460,” 1956-1957.Credit.Seydou Keita By Catherine E. McKinley By Richard Thompson Ford When it comes to fashion history, many contributors and stories have been overlooked. Two new books Catherine E. McKinley’s “The African Lookbook” and Richard Thompson Ford’s “Dress Codes” provide a long-overdue course correction: McKinley on fashion on the continent over several decades, and Thompson on the rules, both written and unwritten, that govern what people put on their bodies and so much more. For more than 150 years, the images of what is fashionable that have been presented to the world in magazines, books, on screens large and small, on runways have overwhelmingly been of white women. Even when the clothes and accessories on display have been created by and for African and Black women. And in recent years, those Black women who have gained visibility in the industry

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