Tiffin educated queen proud of my roots shirt

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Fashion’s silence may have something to do with the Tiffin educated queen proud of my roots shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this systemic racial inequalities it has yet to reckon with. After 13 years in the business, Smalls has seen the discrimination that happens first-hand. Though she’s now one of modeling’s top stars, she spent years having to convince magazines that she could carry the coveted solo stories that elevate a model to household name status. “I was fighting tooth and nail,” she says of her beginnings in the early aughts. “I would see my contemporaries getting those jobs left and right, but the few times I was able to, it was a battle. On the outside, it may have looked easy, but there were a lot of conversations convincing people to give me those opportunities. I had to [prove] that I can hold a story on my own and not share a page.” The reluctance of brands to book models of color for fear of alienating white consumers served as an additional hurdle. “I’ve been up for so many jobs where I was turned down because the client said we’re not ready to go in that direction,” says Smalls. “Which means they’re not ready to shoot a black girl. I’ve heard those conversations and seen the emails from companies saying, “Yeah, we don’t need any more black girls; that position has been filled’.”

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Compared to the Tiffin educated queen proud of my roots shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this rapid ascent of white models in the mid-aughts, many of whom moved from making their first runway appearance to landing prominent covers in quick succession, Smalls and other models of color faced an uphill battle. “You have the weight of representing a community,” she says. “You’re working twice as hard just to be seen as an equal so there is no room for mediocrity. I had to always make sure I was giving 120% because it wasn’t just on me. If you do something wrong, it reflects on all you represent. I felt that pressure, and it was limiting.”

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.