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Posts Tagged: Fashion

  • October 10, 2013

    Who Were the Teddy Girls?

    BY Eve Dawoud

    Writer and Teenage Blog reader Eve Dawoud saw our previous post on Teddy Girls and wanted to share with us selections of interviews she’s conducted with some of the real people in the photos — Mary Toovey, Elsie Hendon, Iris Thornton and Ted Burton — for an ongoing research project.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 4, 2013

    Whither Punk?

    BY Lucas Habte

    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.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • September 28, 2013

    Donyale Luna, First Black Supermodel

    BY Lucas Habte

    Much of the conversation surrounding New York Fashion Week has rightfully criticized the fashion industry’s continued refusal to hire non-white models, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a long history of black supermodels rising (if briefly) to the top of the fashion world. 

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • August 24, 2013

    Jones Valley High School of Birmingham, 1925-1974

    BY Lucas Habte

    Today Teenage is screening in Birmingham, Alabama at the Sidewalk Film Festival, so we’re celebrating Birmingham teens. 

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • July 17, 2013

    High School Hippies

    BY Lucas Habte

    We often hear talk about how popular culture today is so self-referential and self-cannibalizing that it’s impossible to tell where nostalgia ends and creativity begins.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • June 25, 2013

    Mr. T’s Fashion Show

    BY Lucas Habte

    “Hey – everybody’s gotta wear clothes – and if you don’t you get arrested,” begins Mr.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • May 24, 2013

    Carmen Dell’Orefice

    BY Claire Lucido

    Carmen Dell’Orefice, model and actress, was discovered at the age of 13 on a bus going to ballet class.

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  • April 26, 2013

    Moroccan Style, ’30s and ’40s

    BY Claire Lucido

    Collected photographs of young women of Morocco during the 1930s and 1940s.

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  • January 17, 2013

    Chloe Sevigny, 1992

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Before receiving the coveted ‘It Girl’ title, Chloe Sevigny was just another kid ditching school, taking the train into Manhattan to hang out in Washington Square Park.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • December 31, 2012

    K-Mart Ads

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Australian teen-centric fashion mag, Dolly was chock full of fashion, advice, knowledge and advertisements (duh).

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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