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[Man-of-Mystery]

GROAN!

 

[The Saint]

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[DonkeyJacket1]

Precisely, well said that gentleman. .


Yesterday, l saw a dyslexic Yorkshireman wearing a cat flap. .

Made me chuckle, thanks.

 

[Inkss]

Did he own a warehouse in Manningham ?

 

[DonkeyJacket1]

 

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[Ivyskin89]

Veg shoes UK recently released the original astronaut boots in this silver color with a white sole. They're using the NPS factory who have the original pattern for the 11 eye astronauts.

I'm in discussion about doing a run of these in Cherry red and they asked me if I'd like to use the regular tanish/grey sole or the white ones as seen here. What do you guys think? I feel as if I've seen the white sole in old photographs but I should probably go with the regular sole color to be safe.

 

[Ivyskin89]

White soles

 

[DonkeyJacket1]

Not a fan of those massive turnups, prefer no turnup these days and jeans no sagging with boots

 

[covskin]

White soles View attachment 1282179 View attachment 1282181

Careful. If those soles are white then so are his laces, the inside of his jeans and the soles of the bloke to the left

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Tanish.

 

[DonkeyJacket1]

Yeah pretty sure that is just the exposure on the black and white pic

silver dms come off as very glam rock to me

 

[Natty Pinstripe]

And "home made" spray painted ones did exist when Ziggy Stardust Fever became epidemic.

 

[Gsvs5]

MA-1s or sheepskins this winter? With the general election, Brexit and all that, I'd say the times call for a more militant MA1 look, whatever side you may take on these questions. Fashion must reflect the mood that's in the air.

“It will become not the thing, and then it will again belong to the people who totally get it, until it becomes the thing again”
William Gibson

 

[Thin White Duke]

And "home made" spray painted ones did exist when Ziggy Stardust Fever became epidemic.

Yes! I was only a kid at the time but my recollection is that the original skin scene was short lived as it soon widened out and morphed into the bootboy thing which was much less well defined. Boot boys grew their hair out often in Bowie-esque spiky styles or else the ubiquitous middle parting and ear warmers. They weren’t dedicated to reggae and ska and were into glam and top 40 stuff like Slade, Bowie, Sweet. They weren’t as dedicated to fashion and were mostly content in double denim and Doc Martens but maintained their interest in football. Platform shoes, star jumpers and flares came in. I distinctly remember one older lad putting talk on his side zip boots to make them look silver in the dark!! My (totally unsupported) theory is that the defined skin look wasn’t that endearing to anyone outside the scene, and that the above examples of ‘softening’ of the skin image were mainly done to appear more attractive to girls who were put off by the harder skin look.

These are my recollections and of course there were regional variations.