Photos: The super-fashionable elders of America’s Chinatowns

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Call them bold. Garish. On fleek. In 2014, when photographer Andria Lo set out to capture the outfits worn by Chinatown seniors on their daily outings, she discovered a time capsule of contrast-y clothes accumulated through the decades.

Some wore handmade items dating back to their youth. Others wore neon jackets from the 1990s. One wore counterfeit “Nike” sweatpants…

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