Sentences with phrase «of dashiki»

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I chose corduroy pants, thick fleece leggings and jeans with sweaters, a dashiki, thick kimono, riding boots, yellow chucks and wedge sneakers for the week since the majority of my time will be with my teens!

The dashiki is one - size - fits - all so of course for some people it's going to be a little boxy and huge on them.

Occasionally, movies like Shaft Goes to Africa, where Richard Roundtree wears an African dashiki and is equipped with a large unassuming staff that's a piece of advanced tech, and Dolemite (that broad hat, that flashy suit pimp - style outfit) had their protagonists don something like costumes and adopt something close to alter - egos to mete out justice.

This weekend, I scrolled through Twitter joyously taking in all the pictures of beautiful black people dressed in kente cloth, dashikis and African prints heading to the theatre to revel in this momentous occasion.

He includes so many small details that will resonate with grandparents and great - grandparents as they read to their little ones: the dashiki - clad mother with a stroller in New York, the chubby baby in a cloth diaper, the stack of Ebony and Jet magazines, white socks and Converse sneakers, Prince and Keith Haring posters on the wall, the minivan and the large family at a reunion in the park.

Where They Satisfy ostensibly refers to the cigarette dangling from the mouth of the uniformed woman sporting a seductive countenance, the cigarette also plays a prominent visual role in Farewell Uncle Tom, though the title emphasizes assertively black cultural politics signaled by the couple's natural hairstyles and dashikis.

The body — whether nude or clad in a dashiki (or, for that matter, a flag)-- becomes, according to Miller, an index of political commitment.

Although there is no record of Norman Rockwell donning an African dashiki or sitting in a lotus position chatting Om while painting in his Stockbridge, Massachusetts, studio, he is a man who kept up with the times.

At an earlier time in his life, David Hammons was practicing a certain breed of street art: donning a dashiki, khakis and pumas, he took a piss on famed mega-artist Richard Serra's T.W.U sculpture in 1981, a territorializing fuck - you to the gentrifying of Tribeca.

The rectangular format of my Ebony Family dress is a dashiki imitating a poster.

And anybody can see how similar it is to the dashiki, beloved of dignified Africans and somewhat less dignified Americans in the initial days of the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

Last week: We entered the wondrous world of Wakanda, the fictional East African city, dressed in dashikis, all black and looking as royal as the cast of the now historic movie «Black Panther.»