A lot of newspapers, like the Gray Lady, do an “On the Street” column about what people are wearing or what the newest gossip is on the street.

Well, these are from my street or the street I work on.  The street I live on does not have such a manifestation of humanity (TM Harold Koda):

And these are from the Hemp Fest, which is near my street.  Not on my street:

In the last photo, I think it shows that the exposed shoulder is making a comeback this season.

 

High:

Low:

Bill is right.  Bill is always right.  The best fashion show is on the street.

I can’t help it.  I love patterns:

 

Here I go with the bad paraphrasings and observations:

1. In the future, all the men will be wearing cat suits.

2. I know, this is probably some kind of suit that one wears when one appears against a blue screen, but I will just refer to it as a cat suit.

3. How does he see?

4. What does this cat suit have do with Hemp Fest?

5. I hope to God he rode the Green Line in that suit.  Then talked to the lady at Park Street with the feathers in her hair.  If I had a photo of them together, Arthur Sulzberger would be on the phone offering me a job.

6. Where are you Arthur?

Witness:

And this:

I recently watched a super-duper charming documentary about a former Wrong Side of the Camera all star, Bill Cunningham.  It was called “Bill Cunningham New York.”  When they make a similar documentary about me, it will be called “Wrong Side of the Camera Boston.”  Use my first and last name?  As if.

As if I wasn’t already jealous and fascinated by a man who has my dream job, but the documentary showed a lot more of him.  I mean he doesn’t exactly reveal a lot about himself, but who cares.  We have the images for that.  I was however interested to find out that he shoots with a small Nikon film camera with what looks like a wide angle on it.  I don’t know which part was more shocking. The fact that it was a Nikon, a film camera or for a person whose stock in trade is shooting people surreptitiously, he doesn’t have a camera that looks like a high powered bazooka.  I’m not criticizing the guy.  I own the junior sized version of that.

Bill Cunningham has a wonderful line in the movie where he says “the greatest fashion show is one on the street.  Always has been, always will be.”  I’ve long had a fascination with fashion and style and I notice a lot of the time what people wear.  Bill spends a lot of time on shape and line.  The guy does photograph all kinds of people wearing all of crazy things.  I photograph people wearing all kinds of crazy stuff.  He wears a blue coat everyday.  I wear a red coat sometimes.  I love photography, he loves photography.  We are almost the same.

I don’t know how Bill Cunningham would react to seeing the following:

This lady stands outside of the Park Street station every single day.  When I say every single day, I mean every single day of the year. I saw her all winter, wearing her trusty garbage bag.  I saw her all summer in this and other get ups from what appears to be her summer collection.  At this point, I am not even sure if she is human.

Next up, something whole hog from the Bill Cunningham play book:

This was highlight of the photo.  By the way, this from some kind of a large pro-pot event held today on Boston Common called Hemp Fest.  Worry not friends, I neither dislike pot nor do I particularly like it.  I was just there to get the images.

Now channeling the voice of my hero, Bill Cunningham, I noticed that the fishnet stockings, as the ones above were particularly in style, as were many hooded numbers:

As were the men’s tank top:

And t-shirts with all kinds of messages on them.  Well, one kind of message:

And many of the gents seemed to favor dreadlocks.  This guy I photographed was a particularly good example:

Now he is wearing two trends at once.  The wacky t-shirt and the dreads.  The whole place, which smelled of the mary jane, seems to have been infused with a fun atmosphere.  That is an overall trend.  Like this lady:

1. Chocolate

2. Boxers, bulldogs, French bulldogs, pugs, bull terriers.  Basically, any animal that could double as an ottoman.

3. Haagen Dazs Rocky Road Ice Cream.

4. Anything that is outsizedly small or large, like a really small house or a really big cell phone.

5. Anything that comes as a double.  Twins.  Similar. Like: