Mod to Suedehead - Page 278

It does look quite smart. But in a Gestapo kind of chic.

 

 

 

I remembers Mods boys and girls wearing those long dark red and green leather coats.
Never Saw any skinheads wearing any leather except shoes. As Brideshead said leather for Greasers.
These days I have four leather coats, two Belstaff, one Shcott, and a Nice black leather three button blazer

No, none. I don't know if they were quite as against them as me but nobody wore any leather clothing. Incidentally my wife who was a London mod (a year or two older than me) did just the same as you a year or two earlier I guess and still loves leather coats often wearing one she had made to order recently. When we were in Rome earlier this year she bought a very nice leather jacket but my own prejudice is still there......

the one leather jacket I could see being "skinhead", not that it's considered as such, is the A-2 bomber jacket, which we've talked about here before.

Just writing this when you said it Jason!



I think there's something very 'skinhead' about a lot of that uniform, or at least the smart casual aspect of it (I think Roy or Brownie has mentioned this before?)

Great post from Brownie on the leather coats and Steptoe! (Did they cut the 'Es a wanker 'arold' when they are walking back from White City? some copies still have that line in it

I have a Schott A2, I often wear it with USAF 50s Khaki's and my Ox Blood Brouges.

In One of the Stepto films, Albert is going out with a stripper ,
In the Club scean, its in the Cobden working man's club, North Kensington, know as the Town.

Talking of coats, any of you old boys ever wear a three quarter length raincoat? I think they look great over a suit for going out.

Leather MA1s were sometimes worn were they not? Also leather and suede western jackets as has been mentioned. Personally id have thought a brown leather would have been more prefferable to black. Black being a Grease colour. Just my thoughts.

The fly front Raincoat Alan was worn by most of us around Kilburn in 68. They was cheap smart and we could wear them to school.

The Leather A2, as people have said it could have been a Nice bit of kit for a skinhead, but in the 60s original skinheads remembered the Rockers and the Mods hatred for each other, so we skinheads hated Gresers, so leather was a No No.

Off line again, so using me phone, so I apologise for spelling etc.

Brown was the popular colour,but black was worn as well.With the Leather Coats-that would be the time when Mods stopped wearing the Coats(`66).I had a Girlfriend in `68 called Angie who had a Dark Green Leather(Bottle Green was another colour).This was not an old coat either.In `69/`70 my Wife Stella wore a Suede Coat(Dark Brown),so not everybody conformed to the rules.But it was still in Fashion.
As you have seen in Photos(on this Thread) that Leather was worn in `69 by Skinhead/Suedeheads.So because you did not wear it in your Area,it did not mean it was not worn.Do not forget,in Central London, there was no mixing with Greasers.I never saw any until `69 onwards,then I met their more serious Cousins(the Hells Angels).The" Limbo" or the "Roaring Twenties" never attracted them
A Footnote,a Light Tan Suede Levi Jacket (circa `70) is up for Auction.Heavy Bidding,I believe.

This reminded me of the "Shaft" Leather Coats,that we wore in the early `70s.

My late Uncle was a skinhead 69-72ish, before he went onto full Glam.

He was always seen in his beloved cricket jumpers, cable knit style with trim to v neck (white)

The old 'cricket jumper' doesn't seem to crop up that often on skinhead related forums/chat.

I know there are regional variations on  what was, and wasn't worn.

 

Were they worn during the original skinhead era, or was my uncle doing his own thing?

 

I've bought a couple of cricket jumpers over the years (Slazenger) Can't seem to get them to work for me, always seem too long in the body.

Look good under a levi/Lee trucker jacket tho.

Not this brand (obviously) but basically this style

Sorry for the bombardment of posts.

But just found a photo of my late pa and my mom on their wedding day late 68. My dad was a Ted at heart, but I like his look in this photo :)