Street style

Here are the latest street style features

Street style 31 July, 2017

James: urban adventurer

By Cat James

As well as being a talented musician, survivalist and urban adventurer, James, was drawing attention by the sculpture of Bully the quarryman.

Street style 17 July, 2017

Pride in Ryde

By Cat James

The Isle of Wight had its own Pride event in Ryde and pretty much everyone used the festival atmosphere as an excuse to flaunt their finery.

Street style 10 July, 2017

Dayita Shines Bright

By Cat James

Regular readers might notice a bit of a theme in some of my street style spots. Holographic fabrics, shiny metallic accessories and silver jewellery…

Street style 11 June, 2017

Benny Bravo: punk mixologist extraordinaire

By Cat James

I spotted Benny outside Ryde barber The Gambling Man, where he is an extremely regular customer – getting his sharp hair style made even sharper.

Street style 13 May, 2017

Poppy mixes it up

By Cat James

Poppy and I bonded over a mutual love of holographic materials on one of my many lunchtime jaunts to Claire’s, where she works as a supervisor.

Street style 15 April, 2017

Sharp dressed Paul Littler has a very distinctive style. Until recently he was a regular in the Isle of Wight’s corridors of power where, among the budget suits and crumpled bureaucrats, his dapper look would brighten any grey day.

Street style 20 March, 2017

Rockabilly geek chic

By Cat James

Ryde’s Naomi ‘Noo’ Sondergaard caught my eye one sunny spring Sunday. Her look is a melange of rockabilly, geek chic.

Street style 19 February, 2017

Sid Makes the Grade

By Cat James

Taking a break from practising with his band Grade 2, nineteen-year-old Ryde bass player and singer Sid Ryan talked Cat through his distinctive style.

Street style 5 October, 2015

Middle age is the new black

By Cat James

Do you remember when part-time Isle of Wight resident Alan Titchmarsh was all over the telly and it was proclaimed that gardening was the new sex? Or how about that time we eschewed broccoli for almonds as the new superfoods. Well, continuing the theme, we’re declaring that middle age is the new black. Or something.

Scooters, Street style 1 September, 2015

Jurassic Steve

By Cat James

Hailing from London, original 1960s vintage mod ‘Jurassic’ Steve now lives in Lake, Isle of Wight, which he referred to as “God’s waiting room”.