 Men also wore wide-brimmed hats, colored socks, white gloves, and velvet-collared Chesterfield coats.During this period, African Americans expressed respect for their heritage through a fad for leopard-skin coats, indicating the power of the African animal.The extraordinarily successful black dancer Josephine Baker, though performing in Paris during the height of the Renaissance, was a major fashion trendsetter for black and white women alike.