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Costume Remix #8: Amistad (1997)

Of all the beautiful costumes I could have picked to recreate from this film, I have always been mildly obsessed with osnaburg shirts. You might know them as the beige work shirts worn mostly by men in the 18th and 19th centuries. I’ve always called them slave shirts. Sounds politically incorrect. But osnaburg fabric was primarily used in the Americas for clothing worn by slaves. So there’s a history lesson fer ya…moving right along…

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