Just discovered  an online archive of British life / fashion from the 1950’s to now. What We Wore is made up of photos submitted from ordinary Brits who were into something. Ordinary except for maybe an artist and writer called Billy Boy who’s submission includes photos of him with Andy Warhol. Mainly though it’s punks, mods, funk and soul dudes, ‘posh boys in disguise’ at the carnival, whatever you can think of, and never particularly professional looking or presented in an artistic way. It’s snaps at parties stuff. Which makes the site a presentation of British subcultures that you can identify with – I can picture lots of those people in the boring suburb I grew up in (we had thriving punk, goth, raver scenes).

Here’s a small glimpse.

Captioned, the day Elvis died.

 Posh Boys in disguise – can you tell?

Mecca Soul bank holiday – stripes, colour blocking and jumpsuits? It could be now.

Visit What We Wore for a full look plus info about a book that’s evolved from the collection of photos.