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I haven’t done one of these style compendiums in a while, so this is long overdue. And this is also for all those internet retrospectives on vintage style that don’t include a single Black face. It was a hard task narrowing down my favourites from thousands of found snapshots floating around out there on the world wide web. Please enjoy these cool kids of history, giving plenty of sartorial sass for the camera…
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