Mod to Suedehead

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Hello Basset - Great clip, thanks for posting.
Brownie beat me to it with the Bowie/Skinhead quote, I was gonna say 'Aladdin Braces'.
The following photos are not for the purists with a nervous disposition..........
Jesse Hector (Formerly of 60s bands The Way of Life, The Mod Section and Crushed Butler) Photographed in 1970 fronting the Hammersmith Gorillas. An ex Mod/Skinhead's look, more 'honest' than Slade's attempt I reckon.


Building up a good collection of 'Mods in Front of Caravans' photos, a few more here-http://www.flickr.com/groups/22014941@N00/pool/
Working on a 'Boot Boys'n'Bed and Breakfasts' collection too.

Just a thought Bunty but assuming the 2 pics are from a very similar time (as his hair is the same, I would be very doubtful if this was 1970.
The two tone clumpy shoes could be various things but unless they were tailored, I think ye'd struggle buying them ruperts in '70. And the suit jacket in the second pic - very typical '73 lapel (late '72 at the earliest).

And I love a pair of big sideboards but they're a bit much for my liking!

 

[bunty]

Funny you should say that Buttons..... the lapels didn't look '70 to me either....but I thought 'Nah, Paolo Hewitt wouldn't get his dates wrong in his carefully researched book* '


*The A to Z of Mod by P H and Mark Baxter. (Missing out a big chunk in 'S' )

 

[Basset]

Good pics Bunty, always good to see pics showing how things were changing, blimey those burns are epic, dont want to move to far off topic, ruperts definately around 71, i think i might have the ones in this vid in me wardrobe

3.50 in i think

 

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Funny you should say that Buttons..... the lapels didn't look '70 to me either....but I thought 'Nah, Paolo Hewitt wouldn't get his dates wrong in his carefully researched book* '
*The A to Z of Mod by P H and Mark Baxter. (Missing out a big chunk in 'S' )

Ha ha, as if Mr H would get a detail like that wrong!

 

[Sidney Scott]

Hello Basset - Great clip, thanks for posting.
Brownie beat me to it with the Bowie/Skinhead quote, I was gonna say 'Aladdin Braces'.
The following photos are not for the purists with a nervous disposition.......

...
Jesse Hector (Formerly of 60s bands The Way of Life, The Mod Section and Crushed Butler) Photographed in 1970 fronting the Hammersmith Gorillas. An ex Mod/Skinhead's look, more 'honest' than Slade's attempt I reckon.


Building up a good collection of 'Mods in Front of Caravans' photos, a few more here-http://www.flickr.com/groups/22014941@N00/pool/
Working on a 'Boot Boys'n'Bed and Breakfasts' collection too.

Ever read that horror novel 'Jekyll and Hyde'? I know which one this bloke reminds me of!

 

[Ed Vaughan]

Margate -1970 x 2 (Copyright - Topfoto)

Sorry, can't lose the watermark.

 

[Gramps]

Cracking pics ed,

 

[pete7586]

Please watch and listen

 

[loempiavreter]

How's the book coming along?

 

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Margate -1970 x 2 (Copyright - Topfoto)

Sorry, can't lose the watermark.

Have seen the odd picture of lads with their shirts hanging out - "the summer look of 1970" some have coined. i always thought it looked pretty scruffy. Was just wondering from the originals what was the opinion to this back then (when untucking your shirt was looked upon very differently to nowadays)?

 

[Man-of-Mystery]



How's the book coming along?

It was coming on quite well, but then a load more material came in. On the plus side I now have three months without any study, so I'm going to have another crack at assembling the chapters.

 

[Ed Vaughan]



Have seen the odd picture of lads with their shirts hanging out - "the summer look of 1970" some have coined. i always thought it looked pretty scruffy. Was just wondering from the originals what was the opinion to this back then (when untucking your shirt was looked upon very differently to nowadays)?

I never - though maybe the memory has gone - did it.

I think it ultimately came about, in recent years, because people had (beer) bellies... and the 'shirt out' look partially disguises this.

I rarely saw a fat skinhead back 'in the day'.

That said: I stand to be corrected.

 

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I never - though maybe the memory has gone - did it.
I think it ultimately came about, in recent years, because people had (beer) bellies... and the 'shirt out' look partially disguises this.
I rarely saw a fat skinhead back 'in the day'.
That said: I stand to be corrected.

Think you're right Ed, in more recent times as the 'partial disguise' (in a darts player kind of way!)


Different way of life back then - more active, working for a living, less time sitting at a computer talking to like minded fatties (!!), different diet etc etc and the fact that you were teenegers.
Couple of lads in the pic above of Aston Villa skinheads who like a snack between meals, one with a beard (very rare in such circles), but both not exactly the ones you'd pick out from the crowd and say "I wanna look more like him".

 

[Ed Vaughan]



Think you're right Ed, in more recent times as the 'partial disguise' (in a darts player kind of way!)

Different way of life back then - more active, working for a living, less time sitting at a computer talking to like minded fatties (!!), different diet etc etc and the fact that you were teenegers.
Couple of lads in the pic above of Aston Villa skinheads who like a snack between meals, one with a beard (very rare in such circles), but both not exactly the ones you'd pick out from the crowd and say "I wanna look more like him".

Good pic - love the way the scarves are tied in a more traditional 'cravat' style, as opposed to today's slightly effete variations - ducky.

 

[Brideshead]



Please watch and listen  

 

Thanks Pete I had not seen that before.

For those of us that are fascinated with the period from 1965 - 1968 as Mod slowly evolved into hard mod and then skinhead, this is also well worth watching. I like the emphasis on the fact that the look was not extreme - elements of which will always be with us: