When Toronto Standard launched the Stylesheet in September, I wanted to include a street style component. The problem was that I had long been bored of street style. It’s been subsumed by the established order, by the big-money bloggers at fashion weeks, by Style.com; even blogTO mostly shoots “street style” at invite-only fashion parties. I don’t have a problem with elitism; I have a problem with elitist things posing as democratic. Street style today is a lot like Mitt Romney.
So. We decided to explore what we called “original street style” via the uniform. What people wear Monday to Friday, and what they do with those work clothes, and how they make them playful, too: all that proved to be more interesting, at least to our readers, than yet more high-low pairings and heritage “work”-wear.
Our super-rad, always-game photographer Sarah Blais has shot butchers, yogis, Bay Streeters, fashion publicists, Branksome girls, bike messengers, garbage workers, bartenders, cafeteria ladies, tattooing dudes, tattooing babes, and mall Santas. Which Uniform Project was your favourite? Vote below. And in the comments, tell us which Toronto workers we should shoot next.
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