My children often like to tease me for having an old fashioned taste in clothes and style, and I keep telling them that it's not necessarily a bad thing. If you ask me, the style and beauty of the past are immortal, and will stand the test of time, always coming back. Just take a look at these pictures, from the celebrities of the past to the simple people in the street, they are proof that people back then had a great sense of style.
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Paul Newman on his visit to the 1963 Venice film festival. |
Middle school dance - 1950. |
A night at the cinema - 1957. |
Young farmers in Germany – 1914. |
Ice skating in a tuxedo – 1937. |
Elspeth Beard, shortly after becoming the first English woman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. |
The perfect date in the 1950's. |
The necklines of the 1950's. |
Teenagers at a party with coke and cookies in Tulsa, Oklahoma – 1947. |
Skateboarding teens in New York City – 1965. |
A girl out on a scooter ride – 1969. |
The Children of Chicago in 1941. |
Teenagers posing with their first car - 1950's. |
Showgirls playing chess at the Latin Quarter nightclub in New York – 1958. |
Patti McGee, the 1965 US Woman's National Skateboard Champion. |
The Beatles, before they grew their famous hair. |
Three little boys in the streets of Jamaica. |
A couple on Michigan Avenue in Chicago – 1975. |
A model posing for the camera in Union Square, New York City– 1950's. |
One of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men, Cary Grant in the 1950's. |
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip looking at a horse race – 1968. |
Muhammad Ali had smooth moves even out of the boxing ring. |
French girls in short pants – 1967. |
Grace Kelly enjoying a day at the beach. |
President John F. Kennedy and wife Jackie at the America's Cup in Rhode Island – 1962. |
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