Last night I discovered (via <a href="http://www.sewweekly.com/2011/03/romanticizing-the-past.html">Sew Weekly</a>) the Tumblr blog <a href="http://ofanotherfashion.tumblr.com/">Of Another Fashion: An alternative archive of  the not-quite-hidden but too often ignored fashion histories of women of color</a>.

Finding this blog was exhilarating for me -- you all know how I love vintage style -- but also like a punch in the gut. There was a blog full of images of glamorous women -- exotic images, because they're not the usual images we see
<blockquote>In providing a glimpse of women of color’s material cultural histories - a glimpse that no doubt only begins to redress the curatorial and critical absence of minoritized fashion histories - this archive and the forthcoming exhibition commemorates lives and experiences too often considered not important enough to save or to study.</blockquote>