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As I was sifting through this excellent LIFE photograph archive of skateboarding in the 1960′s, I noticed something a little off. Amidst the flooded dress pants, sweater jackets and generally well dressed people of the 1960′s, was this guy. Jeans. Shirt. Shades. Devil may care attitude. He looks like a dude who just shot a Instagram pic, not a guy from the 60′s.
What is it about this guy? The jeans he’s wearing look more like it’s raw selvedge denim, a trend that didn’t really take off until the aughts. His back pocket looks like it could be holding a beanie, one that he was wearing like a lazy noodle over his head. His shirt? I have one just like it. Scruff on his face? A growing hipster. Shades? Unpossibly modern. The only thing that screams (more like whisper) 1960 is his dress shoes. Other than that, we have a time traveler folks!
Maybe this dude is BFFs with the bro from the 1940s and they’re experimenting every era. Or maybe he was in cahoots with Bill Eppridge, the photographer who managed to freeze a moment in 1960 that looks like it’s perfect for 2012. Maybe from a different angle, his shirt looks tighter and more old fashioned. Maybe at a different moment, he’s wearing a sweater vest. But that picture right there? Totally a glimpse of the future from the past, time traveling or not. [Retronaut via Kottke]
Either that or fashion is cyclical and so called modern clothing is just ripping off a style of clothing from the past. But hey, your explanation is far more likely.
Would you rather have fashion rips off the past or there is a skateboarder with a flux capacitor on his skateboard that grinds through time?
I know which I prefer.
But what if he ollies over a butterfly?!
Nicolas Cage forever stays a serious actor.
I retract my statement, that IS a future I would want to live in. I salute you mystery timeboarder!
You kids always think you have invented stuff for the first time. Actually its just being marketed to the masses for the first time. The only thing that always gets invented by the next generation is naivety, repeatedly. (Check out what the upper classes were doing in the 20′s, your going to be looking like them and doing what they did next year, bet you your car).
kickflip to the future