Photos: 1 year later, is Anchorage still the country's least fashionable city?

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One year after being called America's least fashionable city, we take to the streets to find out what Anchorage has learned in the meantime. Here, Jake Turtle of Wasilla. August 2, 2013

Local Facebook fashion critics are my favorite. For someone interested in fashion as a cultural comment, I'm always curious about what people choose to post. And documenting style sins via social media is the best of two worlds: the brutal honesty of a private gossip session with your BFF with a controlled dose of public shaming.

Take, for instance, this gem that popped up in my feed a few weeks ago: "Apparently I missed the fashion memo that it is now cool to wear stretch pants with shirts so short that you're rockin' visible camel toe ... ?? If I'm seeing this on the streets of Anchorage, then it must be like old news in NY & LA, right?"

Anchorage, it's been a little more than a year since Travel & Leisure magazine put us at the bottom of its list of the worst-dressed people in America. And if we're adding visible camel toe to the rap sheet of fashion crimes (I'm thinking right above Carhartts as business casual and below Crocs as an all-purpose option?), it's worth asking if the worst-dressed title did anything to advance our aesthetic or just cement us in careless and casual ways.

That's why photographer Loren Holmes and I hit the streets of downtown Anchorage during the August First Friday Art Walk and Live After Five concert in search of whether or not a year had changed us -- and our clothes. We stopped a few locals to talk about what they were wearing and what they thought of our style one year later.

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