There was a clean break even if you compare 2013 to 2023.
He’s just not very discerning of clothes. And he doesn’t have the benefit of looking at only archival photos that capture the purest expression of cultural moments.
There was a clean break even if you compare 2013 to 2023.
He’s just not very discerning of clothes. And he doesn’t have the benefit of looking at only archival photos that capture the purest expression of cultural moments.
It's not that you can't distinguish whats being worn now - it's more that it's a slight variation on what was being worn then. But it's objectively true that you could walk down the street wearing contemporary high street fashion in even the mid 1980 not seem wildly out of place.
By contrast, if you wore high street fashions of the late 1970s in the early 1960s, and so on, your outfit by contrast would seem outré and theatrical - perhaps even shocking, depending on the decade and the prevailing norms for concealing the female body.
The skinny suits that NPH wears would look very dated today.