Style Archive

Your style has a history.

Your style is more than what you wore. It lives in photographs. The handbag your aunt carried. Your father’s favorite jacket. Your grandmother’s Sunday coat. The wedding dress still packed away upstairs.

Threads & Testaments brings those pieces together with the people, memories and stories that give them meaning. Together, they become your Style Archive.

Where it begins

It starts with one.

You don’t need to know your entire family history to begin.

Start with

One photograph

Start with

One garment

Start with

One accessory

Start with

One object

Start with

One memory

Language of the Style Archive – section
Vocabulary

The language of the Style Archive

  1. Style Object

    A meaningful garment, accessory or object connected to personal style and a human story.

  2. Style Record

    The place where an item, what is known about it, its connections and its story are preserved together.

  3. Keeper

    The person currently caring for a photograph, garment, Style Object or related material.

  4. Style Thread

    A connection between people, photographs, garments, Style Objects and stories.

  5. Style Lineage

    What begins to emerge when those threads connect across people, records and generations.

Your thread may begin with one piece.

The T&T Style Archive is currently being developed. For now, begin looking.Begin asking. Begin remembering.