Then & Now: Mother-Daughter Style

In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked three mother-daughter pairs to demonstrate the style tendencies they’ve picked up from each other.

by Kaylen Ralph

Regardless of how your relationship with your mom currently stands, there’s something most women can agree on — mothers are often the first style influencer in a young girl’s life. We wanted to see how that carried through into adulthood. Decades later, what stylistic impressions did our moms really make on us? A love of all things leopard print? The confidence to wear whatever the hell it is that makes us feel most beautiful, even if that differs for the two of you? We had the chance to delve deep into these questions with the dynamic duo that is R&B singer Caroline Smith and her mom, Martha Byron. But what about the rest of you? Here, some Riveter readers supplied vintage photos of their moms at approximately the same age the daughters are now. Mother’s Day is one day, but style is eternal.

1. Caroline Smith and Martha Byron (pictured above)

photos of Caroline by Victoria Campbell for The Riveter; photos of Martha provided

For more from Caroline and Martha, click here.

Caroline on Martha: “She always had short, curly hair, [she] never had long hair. She would wrap up a bandana super-duper tight, like in a roll, and use it as a headband. And wear it with a big T-shirt. She was cool, but it’s not like she just walked out of Vogue. And she’d wear that cooking, you know, she’d be cracking crab shells and drinking Zima.”

Martha on Caroline: “I feel like that [points to Caroline’s outfit] is what I would be wearing all the time. We brought that back for you guys. When I was growing up, you couldn’t wear pants to school. But I was always comfortable in jeans.”

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