Incredible. Pieces from a collection of garments designed and worn by African Americans over the course of more than a century were donated in 2007 to the National Museum of African American History and Culture by Joyce Bailey, whose mother, Lois Alexander Lane curated and maintained a makeshift museum of black fashion in a Harlem brownstone for over 30 years. There are pieces by Anne Lowe, Rosa Parks, and Stephen Burrows just to name a few. My two favorites? A 1975 Geoffrey Holder costume created for Glenda the Good Witch in The Wiz, and a supremely beautiful fur-trimmed, sapphire velvet opera coat c. 1900, made by it's one-time owner, Louvenia Price, a former slave.
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