Vintage Streetstyle!

[mimi_belle]

My mom and dad in the early 80ies - all dressed up for Carnival, I guess... B)

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

From I-D magazine's 20 yr. retrospective
Circa the early to mid 80s


source: my scans

 

[scblonndie]

Ah, why have I not discovered this thread sooner?!

 

[Dohertysgirl]

^ Me too!

 

[chicca]

love this 3d!!!

 

[drifter-sister]

Ken Russell - Teddy Girls

Yay! I found an appropriate thread to put these. I wasn't sure if Ken Russell (the photographer of this series) merited his own thread with title and everything since he's not actually a fashion photographer and these were taken more as a social documentation of girls on the street indulging in a fashion trend rather than showing off couture with models.

Teddy girls were, I suppose contemporaries of the 50s Teddy Boy craze although there seems to be a less encompassing dress code for the former. According to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Boy#_note-1

Teddy girls adopted a style similar to Teddy boys; they wore items such as drape jackets, hobble skirts, long plaits, straw boater hats, cameo brooches, espadrilles and coolie hats. Later they adopted the American fashions of toreador pants, voluminous circle skirts, and hair in ponytails. Film director Ken Russell took a series of photos of such girls in late 1954 and early 1955 in the East End of London and Notting Hill.[2]

Anyway, here are some of the photos Ken Russell took for the series. I love them and think that the girls, who do look so very young and inching just the tiniest bit on the trying too hard side, are great. Expressive and hopeful and youthful. Faux-attitude, really.





Link: http://www.vipsart.nl/html/kunst/russel/index.html <--- full set.

 

[lovelovelove]

favorites from flickr

most of these are family photos from the 60's and 70's, uploaded by various people all over the world onto flickr.

 

[haute femme]

These photos give me chills.. It's like nostalgia that isn't even for me! But I love this thread..thanks to the posters

 

[InnocentFairy]

^^ I know what you mean...

I totally understand what the older generation mean when they say 'ooh those were the days'!

 

[InnocentFairy]

This is an amazing thread...please, please keep posting!

 

[thefrancofille]

I LOVE seeing the old photographs! One day, I'm going to have pics of me taken in sepia/black and white 40s style.

 

[kindi]

this is a pic of my parents in the early eighties. an the baby in the buggy is me.

 

[SusanSuperstar]

fabulous threat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[silk skin paws]

Great photos.

 

[Luxury's Lap]

Thanks for all the recent posts everyone!! (Especially loveloveloved lovelovelove's "smoking on the steps" (2nd one) and drifter-sister's "teddy girls")

SusanSuperstar and other future posters - please remember that this thread is for non-celebrities only. There is an "Icons of the Past" forum under "StarStyle", and the pictures you posted would be more appropriate there.

And in other news, I love "Newsies" style! This shot is from 1908 (click for the 'big picture'!)

(shorpy.com)

 

[xxilovepinkxx]

Wow this is one amazing thread!!! i dont believe it only has 4 pages!!!

 

[PetitPuppy]

Yeah, we need definitely more pics. They all look sooo amazing!

 

[*Happiness*]

where in the heck have I been?!!?
This thread is awesome!!!!!

 

[shoppingirl89]

60's style.

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1480318-lg.jpg

 

[so_like_a_rose]

wow!
amazing!
thank you all for posting!!!