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    Mod to Suedehead

    How about these https://johnsimons.co.uk/product/f-o-b-bedford-cords-ivory/
  2. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    No different to us then. Lots of competing priorities back then - clothes, records, going out. Pick any two!
  3. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    Back then we would have had a Fred Perry, a Ben Sherman, a pullover, a pair of Levis and a pair of Sta Prest plus a Harrington or MA-1 and maybe a crombie. Add some boots and/or brogues and that was it after a year or so, just enough to have things in the wash with your Mum.
  4. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    It was just a saying about places like that from years ago. I think I've had a drink there but I'm not sure.
  5. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    You'd need two buses to get there!
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    Mod to Suedehead

    I think the skinhead trouser length influence came from here (some more British comedy for @Reggae Mike) But seriously, didn't 1950s Teddy Boys have short trouser lengths, and coloured socks too. A much more likely source of influence for these things, older brothers, uncles.
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    Mod to Suedehead

    There was also the claim on here that skinheads in the UK were influenced by some photos in Life magazine in 1966, like that was even remotely likely as a route of influence. It would be like teenagers reading The Economist.
  8. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    We were the same sort of people from the same sort of places with the same sort of attitudes. I never heard of it in a clothing context though I remember an American tourist who was amazed we were wearing 'American shirts' as well as our obviously American MA-1s. We started discussing if we...
  9. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    The word bovver was definitely used by them as a verb but what they were was Boot Boys.
  10. C

    HERE AND NOW

    The pockets look difficult to use, and something of a 'boyfriend' look with those droopy shoulders.
  11. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    Used to enjoy watching that, the dull reality of it all. 22 years ago!
  12. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    Too old for me grandad, let me know when you two get into the 80s :)
  13. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    I'm always bemused by the 'quarter inch braces' tag on this thread.
  14. C

    HERE AND NOW

    Didn't you say that was your father's? I'm wearing my father's at the moment.
  15. C

    Mod to Suedehead

    The skinhead suit jacket was neither of these. It was pure English equestrian - high buttoning, nipped waist, slanted pockets, long skirt. Because it was a new and different look, otherwise they would just be looking like the bloke in Bewitched. An English equestrian jacket will have been...
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