EXPRESSIONS OF CONFIDENCE AND OPTIMISM
Young women adopt braids and color...
At a festival, 2025
Young men do the same...
Grocery cashier, 2000
Café waiter, 2021 In the métro, 2022
Security guard and bakery vendor, 2025
Barman, 2025 Notions' vendor, 2025
Festival and trade show participants, 2025
The looks spread world-wide: African children admire them.
La Soupape ailée (shown via the link above)
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White — middle or upper class — styles are much less individual. The careers of these Americans are unique, but their coiffures, moustaches and beards are conventional.
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The New York Times (cropped) |
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J.D. Vance, Vice-President of the United States and Zohan Mandani, Mayor, New York City (both photos, 2025)
In Paris at least, male elites often wear black:
Rue de Babylone in the elegant part of the 7th, 2024. The upper-class buildings in the background emphasize status.
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In this movie the man with short hair and no facial hair is unsure of himself and does not want to be noticed, in contrast to the self-confident figure he admires.
"Friendship," 2024 by Andrew DeYoung with Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd. Image cut to emphasize figures / zoom
Black styles show confidence and individuality:
For young men who work in street jobs,
not offices?
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