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Series: Threads Ahead

Youth style from the past meets fashion on the street today.

  • February 8, 2014

    What We Wore

    BY Eve Dawoud

    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.

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  • November 13, 2013

    Denver Teen Street Fashion, 1904-1920

    BY Lucas Habte

    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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  • October 24, 2013

    Kenyan Goths

    BY Lucas Habte

    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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  • 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.

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  • September 6, 2013

    LA Teen Clubs, 1983

    BY Lucas Habte

    Adult anxiety about teen recklessness has always been in style.

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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. 

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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.

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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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  • February 21, 2013

    Young Women of Algiers

    BY Claire Lucido

    This photograph of a probably newly married, Ouled Naïl Algerian girl was taken (by Lehnert and Landrock) in 1905.

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