Tailoring and the black dandy

By Toby Slade and Dijanna Mulhearn

Fashion is one of the most powerful tools we have for understanding ourselves and the world around us. Nowhere is this clearer than in the story of black American tailoring and the legacy of the black dandy.

Inspired by scholar Monica L Miller’s groundbreaking book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity , the theme of The Metropolitan Museum