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SASHA COLBY’S STORIED STYLE

Sasha Colby was introduced on season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race as a certified drag legend. She had already won the famed Miss Continental pageant, developed relationships with high-profile designers, and mothered several drag children — including season 14 star Kerri Colby.

For Colby, her journey in the world of drag — and as a transgender woman — is stitched into her garments. Beginning with her youth in Hawaii, Colby formed a lifelong relationship with clothes as a means of gender expression and freedom. And she had some unintentional helpers.

“The funny thing is how my parents would dress me,” Colby reflects. “In elementary school, I was already a blond kid in the middle of Hawaii. I had green eyes, pretty fair skin, and was femme-presenting. Then they’d put me in these little shorts that no other boy was wearing. And I was like, ‘So you really want me to just get more beat up,

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