I Don't Normally Dress Like This

In my Bubbling Brown Sugar Costumrecent post I mentioned the online archive of the Johnson Publishing periodicals-Ebony, Jet and Black World/Negro Digest. The Black Fashion Museum which was then located in Harlem was covered in the May 1988 Issue of Ebony Magazine.

I was the live mannequin in several of the photos. Here I am in a costume used during the Broadway production of Bubbling Brown Sugar. The story was created by Loften Mitchell and Rosetta Lenoire. I had the opportunity to study playwrighting under the great author Loften Mitchell while attending Binghamton University. Lenoire became popular on the TV Series Family Matters. And I, well... anybody hiring a mannequin?