'Will to Adorn' examines African American styles of dress, identity at Folklife Festival

There is no one reason why a couple in Chicago might wear matching green leather suits to a nightclub. Or why your favorite Detroit uncle sports Stacy Adams and nylon dress socks with his polyester shorts set. But those style inclinations share roots with the women of Atlanta's Spelman College who wore gloves and pearls to class in the early 1900s.