Indigo & Sweetgrass: Dressed in the Lowcountry

Before indigo was a trend it was a labor and a language of the Lowcountry — the deep blue that Gullah Geechee hands coaxed from leaf to vat to cloth. To wear it was to wear the color of one's own expertise.

Paired with sweetgrass woven into baskets and adornment, Lowcountry dress was a quiet couture: self-sufficient, exacting, and unmistakably one's own. Heritage fashion, at its truest, is the record of a people who clothed themselves in their own skill.