50 Style Tips You Can Learn From Your Dad | #doyosexi

Like it or not, you’ve got many reasons to thank your father. He’s the guy who gave you your hair color, your bone structure, maybe even the type of booze you drink. But when it comes to style, pops usually doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Which is a damn shame, because if you take a closer look, he’s had many of the trends you’re still chasing on lock for decades.

Don’t believe us? Just take a look at these dads past and present, real and fictional. Each one of them embodies a solid piece of fashion advice that any guy can easily adapt to his wardrobe. So prepare to learn something about grown-ass man style and check out these 50 Style Tips You Can Learn From Your Dad.

September 25, 2012 | Categories: www.yosexi.com, YOSEXI N2 Fashion | Leave a comment

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December 1, 2011 | Categories: www.yosexi.com, YOSEXI N2 Fashion | Tags: fashion, Hip hop, Los Angeles, music, quotes, sexy, tees, Tshirts, women | Leave a comment

African-American Nightclub Fashion in the 1940s, 50s and 60s

Celebrating Black History Month

A collection of video footage and photographs from the 1940s, 50s and 60s of African-American nightclub fashion.
Rundown:
“Jivin’ In Bebop” (1946), Sahji the exotic dancer
“Cabin in the Sky” (1943), John William Sublett
“Chicken Shack Shuffle” (1943), Mabel Lee
“The Heat’s On” (1943), Hazel Scott
“A Lonely Place” (1950), Hadda Brooks
“Hit the Road Jack” (1962), Ray Charles
“Carmen Jones” (1954) Dorothy Dandridge
“A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat” (1942), Paul White and Dorothy Dandridge

It’s Black History Month Folks! (browngirl112.wordpress.com)
Richardson: A tribute to musician Hazel Scott (nydailynews.com)
NYC sale of Lena Horne’s belongings nets $316,000 (thegrio.com)
Military History of African Americans (librarianbrain.wordpress.com)
Spotlight On: Noir A-Go Go (sherights.wordpress.com)
The AFRO-American Newspaper online archive has over 1 million free articles (teleread.com)
AFRO-American Newspapers’ Archives Digitized By Google (narmer.wordpress.com)
“Everything You Need for an African American History Month Reading List” and related posts (uncpressblog.com)
The most dangerous place for an African American is… (thisismethodicalmadness.wordpress.com)
African-American – News (narmer.wordpress.com)

February 27, 2011 | Categories: www.yosexi.com, YOSEXI N2 Fashion, YOSEXI Remembers | Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 19th century, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, bebop, black history month, Cabin in the Sky, Carmen Jones, Dorothy Dandridge, Exotic dancer, fashion, Hadda Brooks, Hazel Scott, Hollywood, Mabel Lee, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Ray Charles | Leave a comment

Quote That: ‘Many a man fail as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.’ -Nietzsche #blackhistorymonth

Gordon Parks

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft.

At the age of 25, Parks was struck by photographs of migrant workers in a magazine and bought his first camera, a Voigtländer Brilliant, for $12.50 at a pawnshop. The photo clerks who developed Parks’ first roll of film, applauded his work and prompted him to get a fashion assignment at Frank Murphy’s women’s clothing store in St. Paul.

Parks began working as a self-taught freelance photographer, focusing on everything from fashion to the effects the depression in Chicago’s slums.

In 1941, Parks met Ella Watson, a government cleaning woman, who became one of his most important subjects. His best-known photograph of Watson is American Gothic, 1942, today an icon of American culture. It shows a dignified woman posed like the farmer in Grant Wood’s 1930 composition, holding a broom and mop in place of the farmer’s pitchfork. Behind her hangs the American flag.

Parks was a close friend of Muhammad Ali, and godfather for Malcolm X’s daughter Quibilah Shabazz. He was a co-founder of Essence magazine, and wrote a ballet called Martin, in honor of King.

His art was about social issues such as poverty, race, segregation and crime. It also enhanced our understanding of beauty, nature, childhood, music, fashion and memory.

By 1944, he was the only black photographer working for Vogue, and in 1948 he became the first black photographer at Life, the most prestigious magazine of its day for photography. Eventually Life sent him to France, Italy, and Spain, and stateside he became known for his photos documenting the civil rights movement.

His autobiographical first novel, The Learning Tree (1963), and his subsequent autobiographies demonstrate that he had learned to value his parents’ hard work, compassion, integrity, and capacity for hope as well as to fear the brutality and perversity of personal and institutionalized racism.

He attended and took photos at the Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963.

He died on March 7, 2006 (aged 93) in New York City.