What do you think of when you hear the word style? We think about fashion, elegance and good manners... which perhaps unfortunately is not so common nowadays. Here are photos that prove that people once had a lot more style than we have today.
We humans seem to have lost this one somewhere along the way style, this elegant fashion awareness and knowledge of good manners. We have prepared a collection of extraordinary, enduring photographs from the past that reflect both ordinary people and world famous movie stars in the period between the early and middle 20th century.
These photos show that people had in the past much more style, as we have it today.
Gallery: Photos that prove that people once had more style
Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso
Paul Newman
A couple in the rain
Elspeth Beard
Alice Denham
Men play poker
Sean Connery
Girls' fashion circa 1950
Young boy dancing
Albert Einstein
Caroline Kennedy walks in front of her father
Louis Armstrong plays his wife
Young couple dancing Be-Bop in Paris
Harrison Ford
Frank Sinatra
Skating
A girl on a scooter
Olive Stargess, Clint Eastwood and Dani Crayne
That's how they used to go on dates...
Clint Eastwood
A man on a skateboard in New York
Muhammad Ali
A girl on a skateboard
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis Presley
Albert Einstein
Couple kissing on VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day)
On a train to Chicago in 1950
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard
Frank Sinatra is coming to Miami Beach
Actress Diana Rigg (Olenna Tyrell in the series Game of Thrones)
Beautiful necklines