III.5.4. "LOOKS," AN AMIABLE ART

Menu: 3.5.4. "Looks." an amiable art

APPEARANCE, SELF-EXPRESSION IN A HARMONIOUS COMMUNITY

A philosophy of African immigrants

Barbershop sign bought at Abidjan's Treichville market in 1973

Fred, mens' wear vendor in La Goutte d'Or

In brief

• Making oneself a composition

• Detour: immigrants' descendants in the diverse 13th

• Exuberant hair, beards and moustaches

• How those styles began

• Coiffeurs everywhere

• Hair-dressers' salons' good humor

• Shops that continue the emphasis

• Africans' humanistic advertisements

• Detour: reinventing dandies

• Detour: politicizing Black men's fashion

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