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- 1923: Ernest Hemingway's striking passport photo
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- 1950s: The definition of "cool" embodied by Cary Grant
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- 1963: 6 time Golden Globe winner Paul Newman boating in Venice
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- Glamorous ladies dressed up for a ball
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- 1953: Audrey Hepburn at a film premiere
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- A young and dapper Harrison Ford
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- 1950: The time when kids were not "too cool" to get on the dance floor
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- 1954: A buff looking Clint Eastwood with actresses Olive Sturgess and Dani Crayne in San Francisco
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- 1944: The original way to 'text' in class
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- 1950: A NYC gang of greasers
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- 1960: Caroline Kennedy walks ahead while her father, the most powerful man in the world, carries her doll
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- 1950: Teenagers and their first car
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- Sophia Loren, one of the only actresses to win an Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe awards
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- 1968: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at the races
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- 1967: Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger sit opposite each other on a train to Bangor
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- 1961: A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station
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- 1959: A young Michael Caine
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- Browse the gallery of the glam and dapper of eras past
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- 1970: Ellen O'Neal, the greatest woman freestyle skateboarder of the time
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- 1937: A man ice skating in a suit
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- 1950: How teenages used to date
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- Frank Sinatra stepping out of a helicopter with a drink
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- 1959: Dean Martin and Angie Dickinson on the set of Rio Bravo
What cool was now, and what it has become today are two very different images. The values of our past have nearly vanished, so it's good to acknowledge those who came before us every now and then, and how glamorous and dapper they really were. Have a look at our gallery.