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In 1950s America Helen Williams became the first black female model to break into the fashion mainstream. Helen Williams Model, Black Ancestors, Dorothy Dandrige, Helen Williams, Jerry Hall, Jean Shrimpton, African American Fashion, Vanessa Williams, First Ladies

ingridmatthews: In 1950s America Helen Williams became the first black female model to break into the fashion mainstream. Born in East Riverton, New Jersey in 1937, she was obsessed with clothes from an early age, and began sewing her own garments at the age of seven. As a teenager she studied dance, drama and art before getting a job as a stylist at a New York photography studio. While there she was spotted on separate occasions by Lena Horne and Sammy Davis Jr, who happened to be in the…

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I want those earrings and her expression! 1950s Poodle Skirt, Helen Williams, 1950s Hairstyles, Poodle Skirt, Black Goddess, Black Women Fashion, African American Women, Black Culture, History Facts

Women’s fashion of the 1950s changed throughout the decade and, for black women, this was no different. Women of the time changed with the times. Teenagers became a demographic for the first time in history and, with the end of segregation in the 1950s, change for the betterment of black women also ...

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