Colour footage of London in 1927

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Thanks so much for that! This is the world my mother grew up in, and I now feel I have a much more detailed mental picture of it.

Two things stuck out to me:

1) How similar everyone dresses

2) How clean everything looks

3) How even back then streets could be crowded and congested

4) How many people wearing hats

Yes the whole use of hats and there demiss is a interesting one. I suspect a corilation with mens hair styles and having a hair style becomming fashion in the England. The whole decline of manufacturing perhaps also played a part and with that work health and safty - cleaner working enviroments.

Probabably numerous factors but I would say music-fashion-trends played a big part, thinking beatles and then the rockabilly era on this one.

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