Initiated by photographer Nina Manandhar and the team at ISYS ARCHIVE, the What We Wore project is creating a people’s style history of Britain from 1950-2010.
What We Wore
Series: Threads Ahead
Youth style from the past meets fashion on the street today.
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Denver Teen Street Fashion, 1904-1920
Colorado at the turn of the century — the heart of the Wild West, full of cowboys, hustlers, vigilantes, sharpshooters, saloons and people filled with the ruggedness and mettle necessary to survive.
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Kenyan Goths
Africa has the highest concentration of teens on the planet, and in Nairobi they are expressing themselves in never-before-seen ways.
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Whither Punk?
What does “punk” mean in 2013? The Metropolitan Museum of art and Vogue hosted their punk-themed Costume Institute Gala this summer in New York City.
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LA Teen Clubs, 1983
Adult anxiety about teen recklessness has always been in style.
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Jones Valley High School of Birmingham, 1925-1974
Today Teenage is screening in Birmingham, Alabama at the Sidewalk Film Festival, so we’re celebrating Birmingham teens.
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Mr. T’s Fashion Show
“Hey – everybody’s gotta wear clothes – and if you don’t you get arrested,” begins Mr.
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Carmen Dell’Orefice
Carmen Dell’Orefice, model and actress, was discovered at the age of 13 on a bus going to ballet class.
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Moroccan Style, ’30s and ’40s
Collected photographs of young women of Morocco during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Young Women of Algiers
This photograph of a probably newly married, Ouled Naïl Algerian girl was taken (by Lehnert and Landrock) in 1905.