What does the humble, boring quarter-zip sweater have to do with respectability politics and Blackness? Apparently, a lot! When two young Black men on TikTok brought the quarter-zip into vogue for young folks, they unknowingly waded into some very long-lived discourse on Black fashion and looking "respectable." Today on the pod, we chop it up with <a href="https://www.jonathansquare.com/"target="_blank"   >Jonathan Square</a>, professor of <a href="http://newschool.edu/parsons/faculty/jonathan-square/"target="_blank"   >Black visual culture at Parsons School of Design</a>, about Black fashion, and what's happening more broadly to make this pretty plain sweater the "it" garment.<br/><br/>Learn more about sponsor message choices: <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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