Mod to Suedehead

[yankmod]

Thanks for the Music Ricne of my Favorites.

 

[Aces and Eights]

A suit worn with boots - 1970 skinhead style, after all?

This is from a May 1970 magazine article entitled 'Skinheads in Focus', which is available at Ballroom Blitz
https://theballroomblitz.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/skinheads-in-focus/


I'm not sure whether these are just fashion models the magazine dressed up for the shoot or not.

Great photos from the day - I would have thought they were models - thanks

 

[Aces and Eights]

London Meet up

Back in July a few of the guys who post on The Look Goes On met up in London for a pie and a pint on Friday lunchtime. It went well and there was a proposal to meet again in late autumn. Clouseau came over and is keen to come again and would like to book his ticket asap. So, in an exchange of PMs we have agreed a possible date for another meet up – Thursday 26 November.

I know that cov and Skinny Legs are also up for another meet.

I thought I should mention it here on Mod to Suedehead this time as there seems to be a little more cross-over nowadays between the threads.

Last time we met at a great Victorian pub just behind Liberty, The Clachan. I am relaxed about where we go next.
Cheers

Hi Mr Knightley

i should make the effort and meet up with you guys as I am less than 20 miles away from your venue. Its my daughters birthday on that day and she has not confirmed what she has planned yet for the family but I am sure I can go missing for the lunchtime. I will be able to confirm nearer the time if thats ok but in the meantime if you can keep me posted that we be good

I have met up with a few other members on here at Margate in recent years and its been good to put face to names and good company

Thanks

 

[Clouseau]

Hi Mr Knightley

i should make the effort and meet up with you guys as I am less than 20 miles away from your venue. Its my daughters birthday on that day and she has not confirmed what she has planned yet for the family but I am sure I can go missing for the lunchtime. I will be able to confirm nearer the time if thats ok but in the meantime if you can keep me posted that we be good

I have met up with a few other members on here at Margate in recent years and its been good to put face to names and good company

Thanks

 

[Soul Vision]

Rico was a great player, never overplayed but just served the tune in that great rollicking loping style he had, along with Don Drummond one of the all time great trombone players…

Brixton Cat - Rico & the Rudies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNCLepT3dlk

 

[Soul Vision]

From the same set the short sleeves on this BD look very long, esp. if you compare similar styled shirts available now...

 

[Soul Vision]

A logo on a blazer? This apparently "borrows detailing from the equipment worn by Fred Perry himself in the 1950's"

 

[Man-of-Mystery]



A logo on a blazer? This apparently "borrows detailing from the equipment worn by Fred Perry himself in the 1950's"

Looks more like a storekeeper's jacket. You could always sew a badge over it.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]



A suit worn with boots - 1970 skinhead style, after all? This is from a May 1970 magazine article entitled 'Skinheads in Focus', which is available at Ballroom Blitz https://theballroomblitz.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/skinheads-in-focus/ I'm not sure whether these are just fashion models the magazine dressed up for the shoot or not.

I remember this magazine coming out. I can also remember girls' trevira suits in one of those mainstream clothing catalogues (Littlewoods?) and the models in there were fashion models. If you look closely, that's not actually a suit, by the way. The pic lacks definition, but it's a PoW jacket and a pair of Sta-prest. It wouldn't have been too unusual with boots - I had worn boots and Levis with a suit jacket myself - but a 'minority' look, if you like. At the time the models struck me as being genuine kids, not pros.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Suits and boots.

My maternal Grandfather, 1910s

'Dapper' runs in the family!

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

This is my late father - the bloke I got my love of cricket from. I've got his school scarf somewhere, but I remember in the 1960s when mods were wearing striped blazers, I was cursing my luck that he had ever got rid of his! [The pic is from 1938]

 

[Jukebox Dury]

Looks more like a storekeeper's jacket. You could always sew a badge over it.

G.. G... G..Granville

 

[cocostella]



From the same set the short sleeves on this BD look very long, esp. if you compare similar styled shirts available now...

Looks like the long sleeves are just rolled up higher than usual to me.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]



G.. G... G..Granville

Fer... fetch a cloth!

 

[MikeDT]



I remember a few years ago, when DM re-launched the MIE boots, the first pair they made were 8 eyelets '1460' in oxblood, and they were said to be the fac-simile of the first pair of boots they ever made. Now this was maybe pure marketing. These boots are Cherry red, definitely my size... And they don't come cheap !

They were only a movie costume, made up. BTW I got my electric mod scooter on order from Taobao...going to be all the rage in JInan, got the LEDs and mirrors, everything. Should arrive next week.