II.4.4.e. APPEARANCE, A WAY TO COMMUNICATE

"LOOKS," A SOCIABLE ART

MENU: 2.4.4.e. "Looks:" a sociable art  

          Fred, vendor of  men's clothes 

Appearance as philosophy

• Making oneself a composition

• Beauty salons' good humor

• Coiffures and beards that have became universal

• Barbershops and neighborhoods  

• Africans' humanistic advertising

• Reinventing dandies

• Detour: politicizing Black men's fashion

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Making oneself a composition