As an indiana resident, I understand your relatives’ sentiment but you must counter, “how can you live in a state that runs five+ years behind on fashion trends?!”
One of the things I appreciate about your site is how your genuine love for the city and its inhabitants comes through in your images. I look forward to seeing the city daily through your lens. This piece is a prime example. Many people would have walked right by this couple, certainly if they were interested only in the most current designs. What is appealing and lasting about your site is the appreciation of the individual. A blog strictly about fashion would not be nearly as compelling.
I visited these photos again today and was reminded of this poem: “The Chinese Checker Players” When I was six years old I played Chinese checkers with a woman who was ninety-three years old. She lived by herself in an apartment down the hall from ours. We played Chinese checkers every Monday and Thursday nights. While we played she usually talked about her husband who had been dead for seventy years and we drank tea and ate cookies and cheated.
i love your blog. it’s such a breath of fresh air.
I enjoy your pictures and stories of NYC. They always make me long to be there. Hopefully when I retire, I’ll be able to spend several months of the year in NYC.
Lovely blog, great photos and even nicer comments. It’s heartening to see Harlem depicted as having a soul. That is not the image we get from American movies that reach the Europena circuit. Well done.Cheers from Portugal
YOU DA' MAN! Just happened upon your site(yes I live under a rock)Love it but I purposefully went to your archives to see the fashions you'd post around Easter-wondered if you'd have the sense to hang around the AMEs & other churches in Harlem on this highest of fashion holy days in the black community. I should have known you'd pick up all fashion not just some but you're so with it that you didn't turn it into some overwrought gimmick. Simple nod and then you moved on– Cool, very cool.
minny
April 18, 2006 at 5:48 pm
so sweet!
The Observer
April 18, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Aw!
Satorialist, I really love your site. Please keep up the good work :)
Anonymous
April 18, 2006 at 7:14 pm
It’s nice to see pride and diversity so beautifully displayed on your blog!
Anonymous
April 18, 2006 at 8:26 pm
They look cool together. If only all people were as nice as they apparently are.
Anonymous
April 18, 2006 at 9:17 pm
An exceptionally hansome couple! That’s not just a hat — that’s a statement!
Anonymous
April 18, 2006 at 10:59 pm
As an indiana resident, I understand your relatives’ sentiment but you must counter, “how can you live in a state that runs five+ years behind on fashion trends?!”
idonothingallday
April 19, 2006 at 12:03 am
sweet couple, nice commentary
Anonymous
April 19, 2006 at 12:40 pm
One of the things I appreciate about your site is how your genuine love for the city and its inhabitants comes through in your images. I look forward to seeing the city daily through your lens. This piece is a prime example. Many people would have walked right by this couple, certainly if they were interested only in the most current designs. What is appealing and lasting about your site is the appreciation of the individual. A blog strictly about fashion would not be nearly as compelling.
LBellatrix
April 19, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Oh wow…they remind me of some of my older relatives! Such a sweet picture.
minny
April 19, 2006 at 6:04 pm
I visited these photos again today and was reminded of this poem:
“The Chinese Checker Players”
When I was six years old
I played Chinese checkers
with a woman
who was ninety-three years old.
She lived by herself
in an apartment down the hall
from ours.
We played Chinese checkers
every Monday and Thursday nights.
While we played she usually talked
about her husband
who had been dead for seventy years
and we drank tea and ate cookies
and cheated.
i love your blog. it’s such a breath of fresh air.
Trenditional
April 20, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Schu,
I enjoy your pictures and stories of NYC. They always make me long to be there. Hopefully when I retire, I’ll be able to spend several months of the year in NYC.
invisible girl
April 26, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Your site is beautiful.
Thanks for the stories and the styles.
Anonymous
April 27, 2006 at 7:19 am
Lovely blog, great photos and even nicer comments. It’s heartening to see Harlem depicted as having a soul. That is not the image we get from American movies that reach the Europena circuit. Well done.Cheers from Portugal
Hilde
April 27, 2006 at 1:43 pm
I wish these people lived in my building… bless their hearts! Some people are the soul of a whole neighborhood. *sigh*
Anonymous
April 17, 2009 at 10:57 am
So sweet…stories/pictures like these are why I love your blog so much…
Anonymous
January 27, 2010 at 3:34 pm
YOU DA' MAN! Just happened upon your site(yes I live under a rock)Love it but I purposefully went to your archives to see the fashions you'd post around Easter-wondered if you'd have the sense to hang around the AMEs & other churches in Harlem on this highest of fashion holy days in the black community. I should have known you'd pick up all fashion not just some but you're so with it that you didn't turn it into some overwrought gimmick. Simple nod and then you moved on– Cool, very cool.
Karen (Coco) Mitchell
March 13, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Love them! Thank You!