Personal fashion Faux pas

[red devil]

more importantly, have you got any pics?..

[maxxi]

???? Wrote:

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> You must have have had a silk Hammers scarf to

> wear like a tie or tied round your wrist too

> Maxxi? Cherry 8 hole DMs naturally, you daren't

> wear any with more holes or the Mile End skins

> would kick your arse (they might anyway)

oh yes - but only graduated to a pair of docs (8-hole oxblood) when I got my first pair of Skinners - remember them? Weird baggy jeans that, fashion demanded, you wore with a turn-up of 10 inches or more. I grew up in Coventry so my version of Mile End skins were the CCFC Boot Boys.

[milliemum]

Hotpants....me too! Red crimplene with brass buttons!

[giggirl]

I see your hotpants and I raise you to hotpants WITH chotcheted poncho

[Mick Mac]

I don't see your hotpants. So do you have pictures?

[Salsaboy]

Harrington Jackets.

[????]

Salsaboy Wrote:

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> Harrington Jackets.

You what?

No way.

[Huguenot]

http://www.atomretro.com/images/steve.jpg

I thought Harrington jackets were mod?

I also thought they were still cool. Sh*t. Back on the hanger then.

Steve McQueen has been favourably compared with me.

[Laddy Muck]

> Steve McQueen has been favourably compared with

> me.

Actually, I hate to admit it, but the resemblance is uncanny.

Crikey...I use to love Steve McQueen....:-S

[Huguenot]

Ooooh, you flirt, you! ;-)

[Laddy Muck]

In your dreams, Stevie...:))

[Salsaboy]

Depends what you were wearing with them.

[Huguenot]

Ah, I wore mine with Dolores Hart.

http://www.nycscootering.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/elvis_harrington_jacket.jpg

Elvis Presley has been favourably compared with me.

[maxxi]

Salsaboy Wrote:

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> Depends what you were wearing with them.

Rupert trousers maybe? or a pair of tonics or, at the very least, staypress trousers.

[Laddy Muck]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Elvis Presley has been favourably compared with

> me.

Well I look like Elizabeth Taylor in her twenties...

*double sniggers*

[Huguenot]

Mainly I just look cool.

http://riotonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/james-dean-harrington-250wi.jpg

James Dean has been favourably compared with me.

[Laddy Muck]

*wonders whether Huguenot might, after all, just be a deluded nutter*

:)) (emoticon inserted as a Health and Safety precaution)

[Huguenot]

Do you know that Harrringtons have no shoulder seams and deep pockets because they were designed as a golfing jacket? The lack of shoulder seams means they move more freely during the swing.

Would skins and mods have known that they were being just so... middle class... when they wore them?

[maxxi]

Or that when they wore Crombies with silk handkerchiefs they were being ex-military types? Or that the Pringle, Aquascutum, Burberry, Lyle and Scot etc. they wore as 'casuals' in the 80s or the Berghaus, Ralph Lauren and Barbour of today makes them a little sloaney?

On reflection I don't think Harringtons would have made them feel like class traitors.

[????]

Rubish - they were completley aware just carried it off with far more style.

Working class youth culture up until to the 1980s tended to:

Like to dress up (they wore overalls, tougher working clothes all week after all)

Always liked the preppy look

Readily and unironically borrowed from more tailored upper class looks formally - ie teddyboys in edwardian drapes or uinformally egsportswear - Fredperryetc

It's the middlecalss yoythcultures that have tended to either dressdown or look crap in stuff designed for them but not wearing it wirth any sense of style - think deck shoes; golfing jumpers, etc etc

PS Talking males

Nowadays as the white working class has gone young black guys dress the coolest (on the whole)

Add that to your generalisations ;-)

[????]

...anyway, short of wearing it in your underpants with a comic relief red nose, how anyone can put a Harrington in the Faux Pas list is beyond me. I'd have it as a fashion classic.

[maxxi]

"Rubish - they were completley aware just carried it off with far more style."

Well duh! I was being ironic. *note to self - stop being so fucking ironic*

[????]

irony is difficult on line, now I know it looks more obvious :))

[red devil]

Salsaboy Wrote:

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> Depends what you were wearing with them.

Salsaboy, give me the shovel, there's a good chap..quick, edit your post while no one is looking ;-)

[maxxi]

???? Wrote:

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> irony is difficult on line, now I know it looks

> more obvious :))

Don't use it much but is often only way of correcting/challenging Huguenot without provoking page-long diatribe about why he is right. ;-)