The Black Fashion Museum

<p>The tricky thing about fashion is that, in order to preserve its history, you need to preserve <em>physical garments.</em> 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. </p> <p>This story was reported by Enya Hennings. Pictures, details and more at <a href="https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">articlesofinterest.substack.com</a></p> Learn about your ad choices: <a href="https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices">dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices</a>