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Unlike most girls her age, 17-year-old Jude Kershaw actually finds the 21st century “too boring.” Fortunately, a “war weekend” in Pickering, North Yorkshire, her hometown, led her to find where her tastes in fashion truly lie – at least 100 years in the past.
To this end, Judy has been collecting more early 20th century outfits and has been wearing them on a daily basis. And to make sure that she is as faithful as possible to the period she’s “living in” she does an extra reading for her history class.
With a growing wardrobe of period-specific outfits, her bedroom is now “like a museum” and aptly enough, she even has a job at a vintage shop. She is one of the youngest people in Britain who “live in the past.”
Said Judy: “I’ve always been interested in history since I was growing up and it was my favorite subject at school, so I’ve always had quite a good knowledge on the periods I like.
“My grandparents would always have really interesting stories to tell me, so that helped my intrigue with the 1900’s.
“When I got a bit older, I started going to car boot sales, vintage stores, and antique fairs and would find myself steering clear of high street shops.
“I have always found the 21st century rather boring and too normal for me – living in the past makes it a lot more fun to get ready every day and makes every outing more special.
“It’s great to go through my wardrobe every day and pick out something to wear knowing that no one else will be wearing the same clothes as you.
“But it is a lot of hard work – I watch a lot of documentaries and read a lot of books about the periods I dress in to make sure that I am as correct as can be.
“Luckily I also put my knowledge to good use and teach primary schools about World War Two and the periods surrounding it.”
After taking up photography in college, she decided to focus on periodic images and even makes use of cameras from the 20th century. In addition, she works at a local vintage store part-time.
She said: “I knew that I wanted to spend my weekends working somewhere that I genuinely loved, so I started working at my local vintage store.
“I would always shop there anyway and, as I had a lot of knowledge about the clothing periods, I thought it was the best way that I could express my knowledge and my passion whilst working.
“I help a lot of people find their own periodic outfits and explain how you can still switch between the eras – the elderly love me!
“Being at work allows me to be myself – I get to style my hair and do my make-up in the old fashioned way as well as being able to wear my own clothes and not a uniform.”
She even has clothes that allow her to dress as a suffragette.
She said: “I take inspiration from many people, from Mrs. Pankhurst to family friends.
“When I’m dressed as a suffragette I help remind the people in the street that these women existed.
“Those women went through he**, we could never truly understand what they went through – but dressing up as one helps bring them back into the present.
“I merely want to honor these women in the most respectful and informative way possible.”
But despite her fascination for the “good old days,” she still manages to date people in the present and wouldn’t mind going out with a Coldplay fan.
She said: “Being a transgender teenager in the dating world is hard enough – but being a teenager who lives in the ‘olden days’ is even harder!
“Just because I love history and living in the 1900’s doesn’t mean I’m only attracted to George Harrison.
“Just finding someone who’d love and support me is all I want – if he’d dance with me to my gramophone and take me to the seaside, even better!
“But of course being a teenager in 2019, a boy who’d pay for my Netflix and likes Coldplay would do just as well!”
Jude also has outfits from other eras from the 1930’s to the 1980’s so she’s not too far out of touch with present-day fashion.