Vintage Pictures to Inspire Your Summer Style

Vintage pictures of people on beach

All pictures in this post are sourced from Pinterest and are not my own.

I don’t know what it is about summer, but there’s something about those three short months that inspire nostalgia within me. Whether that’s remembering childhood summers in the 00’s, when KT Tunstall’s Suddenly I See and Gabriella Climi’s Sweet About Me was in the charts and school holidays seemed endless, or the hazy-edged memories hot summer days inspire, I always find myself looking back.

This probably isn’t helped by the fact my summer playlist is very often injected with 60’s and 70’s hits, including Summer in the City and the Beatles classic Here Comes the Sun. Naturally, this inspired me down the rabbit hole of spending too many hours on Pinterest, enjoying pictures of summer from some of my favourite decades for style. Here are a few I found:

Vintage pictures of people on beach


Retro bikini aesthetic


Vintage woman on beach


Vintage Dior campaign


Jane Birkin on a beach


Vintage Vogue advert


Grace Kelly on a beach


Vintage cars and camper vans parked near a beach


Brigitte Bardot on a beach


Marilyn Monroe on a beach


Vintage picture on Cannes