The Andover Shop is perhaps the most influential American clothing store that you've never heard of. Charlie Davidson transformed this tiny store into an unlikely literary and cultural salon that brought together musicians like Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Bobby Short, as well as writers like Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. Yet the story was not who he dressed, but why. This book explores the unexpected role that his particular style of patrician clothing played in making people visible in the years before full civil rights.
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