When costume design is good, an entire parallel narrative courses underneath words and actions of characters. In Hester Street (1976), the costumes *are* the actions, and reactions, to the challenge of assimilation, as beautifully evoked here by @emilyctamkin.bsky.social for @bwdr.bsky.social:
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Emily Tamkin
"Clothing doesn’t have to mean you’re bad, so long as you remember that it also doesn’t magically make you good. In this way, it’s not unlike being American."
For @bwdr.bsky.social's fashion issue, I wrote about Hester Street
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/03/26/g...
For @bwdr.bsky.social's fashion issue, I wrote about Hester Street
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/03/26/g...
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