Grandpa Style: Why 20-Somethings Are Dressing Like Senior Citizens – WSJ

WRINKLES ARE IN FASHION. Not the ones linen trousers acquire, but the fine lines that accrue on an elderly individual s face. Lately, the fashion world is celebrating those 60-and-up for their style.

Kyle Kivijarvi, a 36-year-old fashion consultant, runs Gramparents, an Instagram page that posts user-submitted photographs of rakish elders out and about on the street. To date, the three-year-old account has racked up over 129,000 followers. In a typical image, a white-haired fellow layers a tweed overcoat over a striped blazer.

Last year, 30-something friends Andria Lo and Valerie Luu released Chinatown Pretty, a photo book that lovingly captures the fashion sense of advanced-age Chinatown residents in cities including Oakland, New York and Chicago.

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About time. And bring back hats.