And you thought street style was a contemporary phenomenon. A set of images taken in the early 1900s by Edward Linley Sambourne, an amateur photographer who worked as a cartoonist for Punch, has been discovered by Kensington and Chelsea Libraries. They predate blogs such as the Sartorialist by a century, even if the details feel strangely familiar. Take this shopgirl crossing the road while engrossed in a magazine. Substitute her reading material for an iPhone and an artfully messy updo for the hat and it could have been shot yesterday.
