Mod to Suedehead

[yorkshire pud]

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True enough, sounds like my dad ??

 

[northernbloke12345]

Tha don't see rugged mushes like that anymore, different breed them blokes, shame really.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

You had a sack? Luxury!

 

[Ivyskin89]

A couple of recent sales buys
Baracutta x Engineered Garments G9, made from a light Poly material. View attachment 1662167 View attachment 1662168

The baracuta is Ace!

 

[Ivyskin89]

Today I wore this pale green shirt I picked up from a thrift store a few years ago. It's LL Bean, which is not a brand I've ever associated with "the look." But I like it. Collar is not as nicely shaped as Nik's.

Can't see as well but I'm wearing Thorogood oil rigger boots (came in dark brown; I polish with oxblood) and rigid denim slim cut wranglers which unfortunately look like skinny jeans from the bad camera angle. They're not.

Have you got a Wrangler jacket to complete the look?

 

[Ivyskin89]

Speaking of wearing a sack. I went to Brimfield on Thursday and found a nice lot of 60s stuff. One of those booths where all the clothing was $3 a piece. Got these hopsack permanent press trousers by H.I.S.
They are a bit low rise. They remind me more of what The Small Faces would have worn than what skinheads wore.

 

[smalltownbigboots]

Have you got a Wrangler jacket to complete the look?

No but I don't often do double denim anyway. My only jean jacket is Levi's, not truly vintage I'm sure but it is made in USA. Picked it up at a Goodwill in 2003 and it's held up nicely ever since. But I've thought about getting a darker Wrangler jacket like this one. https://www.wrangler.com/shop/wrang...RWEAR_DENIM_JACKETS&dwvar_74145_color=74145PW

Any advice?

 

[Ivyskin89]

No but I don't often do double denim anyway. My only jean jacket is Levi's, not truly vintage I'm sure but it is made in USA. Picked it up at a Goodwill in 2003 and it's held up nicely ever since. But I've thought about getting a darker Wrangler jacket like this one. https://www.wrangler.com/shop/wrang...RWEAR_DENIM_JACKETS&dwvar_74145_color=74145PW

Any advice?

Get a nice vintage selvedge denim one on eBay

 

[Clouseau]

Double denim challenge BTW

Friday Challenge - Double Denim

It's time for another round of Friday Challenge! This time the challenge is themed "Double Denim", or as some would call it "Canadian Tuxedo". I'm really looking forward to see what you make out of it. The input I got beforehand was a request for a theme that would suit both Classic Menswear...

www.styleforum.net

 

[Ivyskin89]

Some new items. Lot of 60s button downs and deadstock mavericks from the late 70s I believe

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Oh, yeah, the old upside-down Wranglers. I vaguely remember them!

 

[Tocklishchap]

Basset. The British army "Woolly pully", you were lucky at least yours fitted the one i had was so long it looked like a wool dress on me ! not a nice look,you dont see them now...i wonder why ?

An old post I know but I couldn’t resist replying. The Woolly Pully is a long garment and the intention is to warm extremities! This is useful on a long, cold hike for example. It does however fold nicely which means that you don’t have to pull it all the way down. Occasionally I pull it down at the back to cover my backside if I’m wearing it while working at my desk: it has the effect of cushioning or even silencing farts!

 

[covskin]

You had a sack? Luxury!

As a child I played on a slag heap, when it wasn't on fire.

 

[covskin]

And that is actually true!

 

[Tocklishchap]

Ska, Reggae, Bluebeat, Rock Steady even Calypso was 'our' music for a short period of time. A late summer visit to Notting Hill carnival was a yearly highlight. The music press was generally disparaging of the sounds we liked. Middle class journalists didn't understand white working class kids getting into West Indian music and they put us and the music down. Not that it bothered me. What did upset me was how many of my mates also turned against the music only a few years later.

And yes what are Cockney jackets? Are they the ones worn by Adam Faith in 'Budgie'?

That’s really interesting as I was thinking about Skinheads earlier today after an exchange with @covskin on another thread in which we mentioned the 1970s. Skins in the late 70s were often unfairly associated with the National Front and the British Movement and that stereotype persists. While that phenomenon certainly did exist and I remember it, the roots of the skin culture were very much in Ska and other Black and Black-influenced music - therefore very much anti-racist or at least open to Black culture.

I’m a Zero crop now - I’m thin on top anyway and so I just have it cut as short as possible. Too old to be a skin I’m afraid. …?