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Posts Tagged: Fashion

  • August 5, 2011

    Chicana Flappers

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Mexican American flappers standing in a park somewhere in Southern California, 1925.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • July 26, 2011

    Raggare Finland

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    A greasy mix of redneck and teddy boy, the Raggare are a subculture that began in Sweden and spread to other Nordic regions.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • July 19, 2011

    Football Casuals

    BY Abigail Wilson

    Group of young men rocking the classic Casuals style.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • July 12, 2011

    Poolside Breakdown

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Back in 2003 before The Hills and The City, there was a one season wonder MTV show—Rich Girls.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • June 27, 2011

    Teen Angels Magazine

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Teen Angels magazine: “The voice of the varrio since 1979″.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • June 15, 2011

    Confederate Cap

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    It was the early 1950s and young people sported a new look—the look of a Confederate solider.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • June 13, 2011

    TeenAngster Presents: AOL Youth

    BY Alison Feldmann

    It was the summer of 1997. I was a thick, telephone pole of a 14-year-old in jorts and an oversize Far Side t-shirt, sitting on a clammy folding chair.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • June 9, 2011

    Lo-Lifes

    BY Willa Nasatir

    Lo-lifes were a late eighties and early nineties New York gang movement with a cultish dedication to Polo by Ralph Lauren.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • June 7, 2011

    Traveler’s Wedding

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Rockin’ the taffeta and trailer style. Photographer Bobbie Hanvey visits with an Irish Traveler family—inside their caravan and all glammed up for big sisters wedding near Downpatrick in 1993.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • June 3, 2011

    Uganda Uniform

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    These bright, young Masindi Senior Secondary School students wear crisp white short-sleeved collared shirts emblazoned with their fire red school emblem.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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