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Zora Neale Hurston, New York City, 1937.
The fashion styling of Zora Neale Hurston, the feminist voice of the Harlem Renaissance, was synonymous with a hat. In the 1920s, as a young girl, she didn’t just stick to flapper cloches. She wore ribboned garden hats decorated with a feather and brimless toques pulled low. The author of the hugely successful autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road and novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, among others, didn’t feel dressed without a hat. Although that was part of the era she lived in, her elegant fanfare for headwear more uniquely mirrored her polished charisma.