![]() These were brown women as they had never, ever been seen before on national television.” Wilson’s book, the Supremes “were three of the most beautiful women I had ever seen. Then, just when you thought you had them figured out, they turned up on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1969 in fantastical, swishing ponchos and pants seemingly made of dégradé tinsel.įor Whoopi Goldberg, writing in the foreword of Ms. Anyone who saw them live will recall the frisson produced by such young women in such sophisticated designs. ![]() Wilson and her colleagues were barely out of their teens and wielded the visual power of three, often in grown-up second-skin gowns freighted with beads and sequins.ĭRATS maximized the look with increasingly baroque confections, some with improbable wings and trompe l’oeil jewelry, like paste crystals sewn into the neckline. When the Supremes broke in 1964, black singers like Lena Horne and Eartha Kitt performed in deliberately seductive evening dresses, but they were older, solo artists. ![]()
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