Mod to Suedehead

[Mr Knightley]

Agree with you, of course. Most of the recent years FP collections are rather ugly. They better keep on their classics. After the "graphic suedehead", they will try the "pop-art skinhead" maybe?

Yes, I'm sure they will. I think FP went for some time ignoring the skinhead connection completely but now there is more interest in the movement they will no doubt do a U-turn!

 

[Ed Vaughan]



Is that for internal or external use?

Whatever next: milk with gas passed through it?

 

[Inks]

Nice one, Inks.

For 2014, FP launches a new sub-collection : trying to cash in on name recognition perhaps ?

You'd think FP would know enough not to misappropriate the name Suedehead to something they're hawking. Then again, they've probably wrung every penny out of their historical link to Mods and Skinheads by now. Suedehead has been pretty much left alone by subsequent generations. Now it seems like we're probably going to have a bunch of wrongly-attired, Hipster berks calling themselves Seudeheads in the near future. Gawd 'elp us.

 

[Sirryacus]

Even now I wake up in the night after a dream about my 1968 court appearance for the same 'crime'.....

Did they beat the **** out of you with billy clubs when they caught you?

 

[Inks]

The deadstock BD I ordered from the US arrived today. I've been after a BD with a decent mid-late 60s length collar for ages. It's a polyester knit, but at under £20 delivered, I'm not complaining.

 

[Inks]

One of the contestants on tonight's Mastermind is a tasty looking Mod bird.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]



You'd think FP would know enough not to misappropriate the name Suedehead to something they're hawking. Then again, they've probably wrung every penny out of their historical link to Mods and Skinheads by now. Suedehead has been pretty much left alone by subsequent generations. Now it seems like we're probably going to have a bunch of wrongly-attired, Hipster berks calling themselves Seudeheads in the near future. Gawd 'elp us.

We'll just refer to them as 'Pseudheads'.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]



One of the contestants on tonight's Mastermind is a tasty looking Mod bird.

You'll be referring to Katie Johnston. Yes, very 'Mary Quant'.

 

[Botolph]

 

[Inks]

We'll just refer to them as 'Pseudheads'.

Nice one.

 

[Bob the Badger]

Interesting reading, do you remember the "Bronx shop"?
http://sabotagetimes.com/fashion-style/kinky-boots-writer-reveals-the-extent-of-his-shoe-obsession/

That was a good find Clouseau. I shopped at the Bronx shop in 1969/70. It was a great shop for Ivy style clothes. Nearly all American imports. Mr Knightley also shopped there I seem to recall.
Geoff Deane gives a good account of life of a young East London teenager from those days.

 

[Clouseau]

Good song, Bob. Love the '79 version too.

 

[elwood]

As it's a "quiet news" sort of day, thought I'd post this ad from the Manchester Evening News 9th October 1968. (Centenary edition, which is why it had been kept for 45 years in the loft I'd been clearing recently - and not mine.)

Shows Crombie coats known as such by reference to cloth they were made from, rather than manufacturer. Nothing new to us in that of course and the style shown obviously not what became ours. Still, as I said, it's a quiet day. The prices (per-decimal) might raise a smile ... and I left in the rest of the ad for female knitwear as a minor bonus.

 

[Inks]

You'll be referring to Katie Johnston. Yes, very 'Mary Quant'.

That's the lady. The newsreader Naga Munchetty sometimes looks very Modette (not always though). Ms Munchetty reminds me a bit of the beautiful late French actress Cathy Rosier.

 

[yankmod]

That was a good find Clouseau. I shopped at the Bronx shop in 1969/70. It was a great shop for Ivy style clothes. Nearly all American imports. Mr Knightley also shopped there I seem to recall.
Geoff Deane gives a good account of life of a young East London teenager from those days.

Yea.That was Great.Thanks for that.