III.5.4. "LOOKS," A SOCIABLE ART

Menu: 3.5.4. "Looks:" a sociable art

APPEARANCE, A WAY TO COMMUNICATE 

Self-expression in a harmonious community, a philosophy that is still more powerful if it is not formulated

          Fred, vendor of  men's clothes 

In brief

• Making oneself a composition

• Young men's exuberant hair, beards and moustaches

• How those styles began

• Barbershops and beauty salons line the street

• Hair-dressers' salons' good humor

• Shops that continue the emphasis

• Reinventing dandies

• Detour: politicizing Black men's fashion

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Making oneself a composition