The blog What We Wore collects old pictures of people snapped wearing their trendiest gear. As a book is published of its best submissions,we remember the days before technology changed fashion and photography for ever
What We Wore: vintage British street styles – in picturesBefore I meet Nina Manandhar, the founder of the blog What We Wore, and I’m determined to dig out a picture of myself as a teenager,so she might add an image of my own highly flammable hairstyle to her growing archive of street style. Only then I remember: no such image exists. That miraculous moment when my carefully constructed look – the frosted lips and the shimmering eyelids, the scratchy winklepickers and the ankle-flapping duster coat – finally came together was never going to be captured for posterity in my case. Even whether any of my friends had owned a camera, or they were hardly going to lug it with them to Barry Noble’s Roxy Nite Spot.
Manandhar,a Shoreditch-based photographer, laughs. This isnt the first time she’s heard a story like this. In the days before camera phones, and photographs were relatively scarce: film was expensive,flashbulbs unreliable. Plus, people seemed to live for the moment, and rather than for the moment when they could stick the moment on Instagram. “Selfies are such a portion of our lives now,” she says. “It’s as whether we feel we don’t exist unless we’re constantly documenting ourselves. But depart back a bit and it gets harder and harder to find pictures of street style. People will often say, ‘I didn’t think approximately getting my photo taken; I was too busy enjoying myself.’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com