"Afro-Victorian": Bringing Historical Black Women's Dress into the 21st Century w Cheyney McKnight

More Cheyney, including her must-watch "These Roots" series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEVpwIpE7PpD2rt1SGtAkJw Cheyney's chatelaine video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yge15l2Zn4 Supplemental footage from @NotYourMommasHistory, Racked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6h7Pqc0KM Footnotes, &c: [1] Charles “Teenie” Harris. “Two men wearing zoot suits and two women, in interior with wainscoting and pictures on wall, possibly bar or nightclub”, c. 1940 - 1945. Carnegie Museum of Art, accession no. 2001.35.36283. https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/3c2d6a57-622b-41ab-8bd2-2efc8ab4dd7b [2] Charles “Teenie” Harris/ “Girl wearing light colored blouse, solid colored skirt, and flowers in hair, with boy wearing zoot suit, striped tie, two toned shoes, and scarf hanging from pocket, leaning back with fingers outstretched, in interior with light colored walls and terrazzo floor”, c. 1940 - 1950. Carnegie Museum of Art, accession no. 2001.35.37942. https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/b4538a28-fc36-4b70-bb44-bee3f8ebe9eb [3] “Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1781–1853)” by Anthony Meucci, c. 1825. The New York Historical Society. Accession no. 1920.4. https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/43197/pierre-toussaint-ca-17811853?ctx=727edf72e6e5068f986d0f57bfb87dfad985e08a&idx=30 [4] “Portrait of a free woman of color”, François (née Franz) Fleischbein, 1837. The Historic New Orleans Collection. https://www.on-off.site/projects-lucia-olubunmi-momoh-not-betsy [5] “Music and Dance in Beaufort