“FASHION is a form of ugliness so intolerable we are forced to alter it every six months,” wrote Oscar Wilde – a man never knowingly under dressed or ingloriously coiffed.

Nonetheless, given enough time, even the unlikeliest of trends circle back around to the mainstream.

This is one lesson to be learned from peering at the sepia faces of The Argus photo archive, in which this walrus-moustached gentleman stands with a proud arm around his smiling wife.

His superb facial topiary would not look out of place on West Street today – albeit atop a slightly different outfit – but who is he?

Do faces recognisable from this 1953 photograph look out from your own living rooms walls?

Beauty contests may be largely a thing of the past but a beautiful young woman in a bikini drawing admiring glances on Brighton’s seafront is unlikely to go out of fashion any time soon.

Nonetheless it would be strange to see the kind of crowd, even in the height of summer, that surrounded this pageant contestant in 1959.

Can you recognise your mother or grandmother in the sea of rather unlikely faces in the front row of spectators?

While some trends endure or come back, others fade.

Even amid the tension and strife of the industrial dispute bringing Sussex’s rail lines to a crawl these last two months we have seen few people huddled round a traditional brazier, as pictured here in the Fifties.

And where is this historic street scene taking place?

We want to hear from you on these questions and about all the photos we feature in this new daily Timeout section.

Get in touch by emailing timeout@theargus.co.uk.