52 Vintage Fashion Photos That Reveal Just How Awesome People Used To Dress

 

Fashion goes round in circles. At least to a certain extent, the fashions of the past will become the fashions of the future. When we look back to photos of the post-war era of 1940-1960, all we see is classy people that definitely knew how to dress.

1. A couple dances at a Be-Bop cellar in Paris, France in 1951.

2. A couple of models in nautical-inspired clothing, 1940s.

3. A couple on Michigan Avenue in Chicago in 1975.

4. A crowd of shoppers in London in 1908.

5. A boy in Boston, 1968.

6. A group of kids go to the prom in the 1960s.

7. A group of Irish farmers at a pub, 1963.

8. A girl models in New York City in 1956.

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9. A girl in Harlem, New York City, in the 1940s.

10. A figure-skating man in New York City in 1937.

11. A group of kids in Chicago, 1941.

12. A group of men getting ice cream in England in 1971.

13. A model in Paris in the 1950s.

14. A model wanders Disneyland in 1961.

15. A model wears an ensemble by Balenciaga for Vogue in 1963.

16. A perfectly accessorized Grace Kelly.

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17. A woman goes to the beach in California, 1950s.

18. A woman in Accra, Ghana in 1972.

19. A woman named Florette on Monte Carlo Beach, 1953.

20. Anna May Wong, 1930s.

21. Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 film Two for the Road.

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22. Audrey Hepburn, 1962.

23. Bettie Page, 1950s.

24. Brigitte Bardot in 1950.

25. Cary Grant in the 1950s.

26. Clint Eastwood, Olive Sturgess, Dani Crayne in San Francisco, 1954.

27. Erlin Ibreck in London, England, 1966.

28. Four women on the beach in the 1950s.

29. Freddie Mercury riding Darth Vader in 1980.

30. James Brown in 1967.

31. James Garner in 1959.

32. Katherine Hepburn in the film Bringing Up Baby, 1938.

33. Londoners walking Carnaby Street in London, 1966.

34. Marlon Brando looking perfect.

35. Mia Farrow in London in the 1960s.

36. Models show off tennis gear for a 1954 issue of Vogue.

37. Models stand in line at Roosevelt Raceway, 1958.

38. Natalie Wood looking amazing.

39. One fabulous speedo with a leopard on it.

40. Paul Newman in Venice, Italy, 1963.

41. Roy Halston Frowick, 1960.

42. Three men in Jamaica in the 1950s.

43. Three moga (modern) girls in Kageyama Koyo, Japan in 1928.

44. Toshiro Mifune in Venice, 1960.

45. Trudy Marshall, Jeanne Crain, Gale Robbins, June Haver and Mary Anderson in 1944.

46. Two girls walk down the street in Cape Town, South Africa in 1965.

47. Two ladies at the beach in the late 1920s/early 1930s.

48. Two men at a tattoo parlor in the 1920s.

49. Two men in the 1940s.

50. Two women at an event in Tehran, Iran in the 1960s.

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