Wednesday 30 October 2013

"Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything"


Nostalgia is a trend that never goes away. It pops its head round the corner of our lives, just to mention a thought it had about that thing that you used to love, do you remember? It gently nudges the arm of designers and stirs up a memory of a past decade and the shoes it wore. It's what keeps the 16mm film industry afloat, Lomography stocked in  Urban Outfitters, and the rest of the iPhone/ Android using world attatched to their Instagram filters. We revel in the haze that nostalgia quietly weaves around our lives. Nostalgia is both ephemeral in its phases, and omnipresent throughout our lives. Nostalgia is bittersweet. Nostalgia is cool.



earrings- Forever 21, jumper- Primark, dress- charity shop, boots- Jones the Bootmaker


But when you're on your sixth Buzzfeed article about "Those Awesome Crazy Things That Happened In The Nineties That Only You As A Nineties Child Will Get" and you're preparing for each Throwback Thursday weeks in advance it may be time to rub the haze out your eyes and rejoin your peers in the present. Until next Thursday that is. And in the mean time, there's always dressing like the 90s woman you never realised you wanted to be until nostalgia whispered in your ear about that TV show you used to love, and how cool those people looked through your 8 year old eyes. 




Title Quote Attributed to Terrence Malick speaking about "Badlands"  

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