Summer of '69
American Life Magazine’s vast photo archives, spanning 150 years in the life of the US, are now searchable by google even though the magazine is no more. Very interesting, particularly the series on poverty during the Great Depression. It’s also full of hidden gems like this:
OMG fugly mandals and hideously unflattering pants on a young Hillary Rodham. What a square.
I’d seen a cropped version of this image before, but never the full-length horror. And no, it’s not just the time period; rather, a reminder that these are the people who run our lives - the people who spend their youth in fuglypants with an earnest expression, pursuing noble goals, only to emerge from their chrysalis of foul twenty-five years later, pristine style icons, with the aid of a herd of professional stylists. Here’s what the cool kids were doing in 1969. Warning: none of these people are famous, but they look like they’re having a freakin’ good time.
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