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"For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new."

I've been meaning to share this Vanity Fair article by Kurt Andersen since December. And then things that were more frivolous in nature popped up along the way and jumped the to-be-blogged queue...you know what it's like.

And, of course, I had to add my 5-cents' worth of thoughts which soon became rambling 100-dollar paragraphs. You know economy-of-words is not my forte if you've been reading this blog long enough and add my laziness on top of that, I decided to delete the paragraphs instead of trying to cut them down.

But...I've since found a few more articles on a new-to-me site, The Genteel, which make good supplementary reading if you liked the Kurt Andersen one...

~ Ghosts Of Generations Past by Preetma Singh (I discovered The Genteel via Preetma's personal style blog which I've been reading for quite some time now. She has a real knack for combo-ing some of the most unexpected pieces. Plus her highly-entertaining and thoughtful posts were much-needed breaths of fresh air in a world polluted by style blogs mostly written, or should I say "curated" or "edited", by airhead label-whores all cut from the same mould.)

~ The Plight Of Personal Style and The Identity Crisis?, both by Paul Aguirre Livingston

Enjoy!