Traditionally, nostalgia has been seen as negative, even harmful. For, while we may think it’s comforting to look back, seeing our past through that idealised lens - those proverbial rose-tinted glasses - has long been termed bad for us.
But it’s also complex - an emotion often characterised as bittersweet. How could we forget? It’s a potent thing, nostalgia. ‘Remember the grainy feeling of sand, still lingering, in a pair of slip-on sandals? (Remember holidays? Remember beaches?)’ ‘Remember that hoodie - the one handed to you by a one-night stand to get home, years ago, and left in the back of your closet, now redolent with former freedoms, flirtations and hands touching across an unwiped bar top?’ she writes. In a recent piece for The New York Times, writer and curator Lou Stoppard wrote of the joy of rediscovering clothes and indulging their nostalgia.
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Lara Johnson-Wheeler has been digging out old wardrobe favourites from her youth during lockdown Lara Johnson-WheelerĬertain like-minded friends of mine update me regularly with news of their hunt for Prada’s leather flowered men’s brogues from 2012. When thrown on hastily, it smartly disguises a sports bra and cashmere socks for a press junket via Zoom. A red velvet suit, formerly reserved for Christmas parties, still smacks of the potential of a Bailey’s-tinged snog. In recent months, I’ve been rediscovering forgotten pieces from my wardrobe and, while wearing them to stay inside, I think back with fondness to the times I donned them to meet with friends and ex-partners in my life long before Covid-19.Īn old Aran knit cardigan that absorbed a smoky smell from last November’s bonfire is just right to wrap up in for a close analysis of The Real Housewives of Potomac via a far-flung WhatsApp group on the sofa.
The internet is one of the first places we go when we feel nostalgic – from throwback Thursdays to flashback Fridays, time-travelling rhetoric punctuates our language online.īut it’s not the only place we mine for memories.
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Or, at least, I know what most of the people I follow on social media did, seeing as throwback posting has been rife of late.Īs the Coronavirus pandemic has restricted events and gatherings, the sharing of old photos from simpler times during lockdown has given us a chance to laugh freely at the ill-fitting band T-shirts, mistakenly cut fringes and Pepto Bismol-coloured Mac lipsticks from our youth.
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