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[Kingstonian]

Pretty much everyone I knew when I was younger moved out of the area. I'm not on facebook or anything like that, so I have no idea what happened to them.

Similar. Area I grew up in has gone through many changes. Nearly everybody lives elsewhere. Where I live now they still know people they went to school with - which is great. I mentioned this to a friend from Wimbledon. We both agreed that will not last much longer and it will soon be all change like the rest of London. I have worked with a few I knew from my youth and school reunions every few years let me keep track but life moves on.

 

[The Saint]

Similar. Area I grew up in has gone through many changes. Nearly everybody lives elsewhere. Where I live now they still know people they went to school with - which is great. I mentioned this to a friend from Wimbledon. We both agreed that will not last much longer and it will soon be all change like the rest of London. I have worked with a few I knew from my youth and school reunions every few years let me keep track but life moves on.

I suspect that that would be the case in most areas.
When I left home in my early 20s l moved around a bit and came back to area I grew up in just about 19yrs ago . I now live about 500yds from where this lifetime began for me . I realised , a wee while ago that it had changed quite a bit from years ago .
Places are changing all the time , the population has grown by 8 million since the Blair period but most of it is mass immigration.

 

[Inkss]

Found this vintage BD shirt and tie combo for sale on ebay.

No thanks.
Very Simon Dee/Tommy Tupper.

 

[pressuredrop]

Found this vintage BD shirt and tie combo for sale on ebay.
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No thanks.
Very Simon Dee/Tommy Tupper.

I dunno...

...the combo might look good with the beret.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Found this vintage BD shirt and tie combo for sale on ebay.
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No thanks.
Very Simon Dee/Tommy Tupper.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimon Dee!

 

[The Saint]

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimon Dee!

He was recieving £250 (£4000 in today's money) and lived an extravigant lifestyle at that time , right at the start of the 'look'. .

 

[Inkss]

 

[Thin White Duke]

I think I mentioned before I had a very similar matching shirt and tie set to that Simon Dee one but mine was in a pale green confection. It would have been around the same time (1969 - 1970 ish). I got a Tootal tie as a present in a similar green and yellow colour scheme but satin in bright almost neon colours that I used to swap in to wear with the shirt.
I don’t know if it was by accident or design but my older brother had the same set which I inherited a few years later and was definitely still wearing on the junior school around 1975 just to keep the psychedelic party going a bit longer!!

Aah the reckless abandon of youth!

 

[covskin]

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Like @Thin White Duke I had a shirt and tie like that, an orange paisley(!!) with a metal scarf ring to tie the tie. Sometime early early 70s.

 

[The Saint]

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From The Italian Job. .?

 

[The Saint]

Like @Thin White Duke I had a shirt and tie like that, with a metal scarf ring to tie the tie. Sometime early 70s.

Yeah , it looked like a Scout woggle. .

. .lovely fashion accessory. .

 

[Thin White Duke]

I remember seeing some film of the Small Faces playing and Kenney Jones was wearing something similar, in bright pink, with his large tie knotted but sat inside his shirt collar rather than the conventional way. That must have been the death knell of the Small Faces as stylish lads and in no time you were seeing Marriott in a psychedelic paisley patterned one piece bell bottom jump suit.

 

[Inkss]

Found this original 60s covered-plackett BD for sale on ebay

Seller wants £100+ for it.
Not for me in that condition.

 

[The Saint]

Found this vintage BD shirt and tie combo for sale on ebay.
View attachment 1297606

No thanks.
Very Simon Dee/Tommy Tupper.

 

[Inkss]

From The Italian Job. .?

Yes.