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Weekend Reading: A tailor exclusively for women, Pink Tax, and Intention

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After reading about the first tailor exclusively for women in the history of Savile Row, I came across this picture of Marlene Dietrich, a woman unafraid to wear trousers in the 1930s. This made me think about the different spaces in fashion that men and woman have held throughout history, and how much those roles change each year.

Here are a few more fun reads for the weekend.

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Sarai Mitnick

Founder

Sarai started Colette back in 2009. She believes the primary role of a business should be to help people. She loves good books, sewing with wool, her charming cats, working in her garden, and eating salsa.

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