Tattle Tales: Tabloids and The Golden Girls

This post is a part of Fashion In the Broad Sense: a series of posts that explores how The Golden Girls relates to important topics and issues surrounding women and fashion. Picture it: the supermarket check out line, 2022. There I was, humming the St. Olaf fight song and placing my cans of Le Sueur peas …

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Pride and Prejudice: Nancy Reagan’s Decorator

This post is a part of Fashion In the Broad Sense: a series of posts that explores how The Golden Girls relates to important topics and issues surrounding women and fashion. Inspiration sometimes strikes in the strangest of ways, and this post comes courtesy of the USPS's untimely announcement on the first day of Pride Month …

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Ruby, Paula, Winifred, and Rosalind: The Black Women of The Golden Girls

This post is a part of Fashion In the Broad Sense: a series of posts that explores how The Golden Girls relates to important topics and issues surrounding women and fashion. In its seven storied seasons The Golden Girls only dealt with race a handful of times, but those episodes are some of the most …

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Dealing with “Mixed Blessings”

This post is a part of Fashion In the Broad Sense: a series of posts that explores how The Golden Girls relates to important topics and issues surrounding women and fashion. On Saturday, June 27th, 2020, the news broke that Hulu pulled the season 3 episode "Mixed Blessings" from its streaming platform due to concerns about the portrayal …

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