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Katharine Hepburn, 1938
Katharine Hepburn, 1938
The Tomboy Look
Girls will be boys? The tomboy look has been enjoying unprecedented appeal of late. Alexa Chung, Katharine Hepburn, Françoise Hardy, Patti Smith, Jane Birkin and Birkin’s two younger daughters, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon have all made stealing from the boys seem like the most stylish thing in the world. “Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion,” a compact coffee table tome from Tomboy Style blog author Lizzie Garrett Mettler, celebrates these style icons and their countless lesser-known sisters via dozens of vintage and contemporary photographs.