"obsolete style" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a writing or speaking style that is no longer used or considered outdated. Example: The language in this historic document is written in an obsolete style, making it difficult for modern readers to understand.
4. 'FAR FROM HEAVEN' -- Todd Haynes's sumptuous weepie is a dazzling evocation of a bygone era, and an all-but-obsolete style of moviemaking.
"And the thing about fashion is that things become obsolete, out of style; so fashion customers buy and throw away.
And the thing about fashion is that things become obsolete, out of style; and so fashion customers buy and throw away.
Farmers say that using their initiative lets them bring enthusiasm back to a job that is in danger of becoming as depressingly obsolete as Soviet-style collective farming.
But another local Gehry design, the enclosed 1980 mall known as Santa Monica Place, has long been regarded as obsolete — a suburban-style shopping center that turns its back on a thriving urban corridor.
But more important, Forever is obsolete in its play style as well.
Mr. Isensee's works relate to those of semioticians like Peter Halley and Jonathan Lasker, but they may be spiritually closer to the paintings of James Siena, who also knowingly manipulates obsolete elements of Modernist style while delivering objects of almost hallucinogenic visual intensity.
This makes the idea of a Brady Bond-style restructuring obsolete.
Old-style wines, obsolete techniques and winemakers living in the past are being pushed aside, sometimes gently, sometimes abruptly, to make way for the new.
And if the appropriation, ironic or affectionate, of discarded styles and obsolete consumer goods can be glib and superficial, it also expresses a desire to locate a spirit, an attitude, a set of possibilities that seem otherwise unavailable, and to drag them into the present.
