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Just the fact that these prostitutes were masking and going out into the street at all was a big deal. Shop over 200 top black babydoll dress and earn Cash Back all in one place. "So it had all that double meaning in it because African-American women weren't considered precious and doll-like." "At that time, baby dolls were very rare and very hard to get," Vaz says. There was, however, something subversive about black sex workers dressing this way. They call us baby dolls, and let's be red hot,' " Vaz says.Ĭalling a woman "baby" had just made its way into the popular lexicon, with songs like "Pretty Baby" written by New Orleans native Tony Jackson. "And they said, 'Let's just be baby dolls because that's what the men call us. One year the women in the black district heard that their counterparts in Storyville were going to dress up for Mardi Gras they decided they needed to come up with some good costumes to compete. " another manifestation of how Jim Crow worked to disenfranchise black people, even in the most sordid of industries," Vaz says.īetween these two red-light districts, there was a kind of rivalry. This 1942 photo provided by the Louisiana State Museum shows Gold Digger Baby Dolls, one of the neighborhood groups that adopted the "baby doll" costumes.
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