The Look goes on...

[Botolph]

"less fetishy"

Than, say, something these fellows would wear:

 

[user12345]

The seventh member of the village people was a skinhead.

I have nothing against someone being a skinhead and gay but those guys just use it as a fetish.

 

[Botolph]

The seventh member of the village people was a skinhead.

I have nothing against someone being a skinhead and gay but those guys just use it as a fetish.

There certainly is a difference. There were two or three here in Boston a decade or so ago who were actually proper skinheads. However in “that” part of Town you’d see some of them fetishists tooling around when that “culturally-appropriated” look was popular with some of them at the time.

 

[covskin]

Yes, not bad(who the fuk wears a pair of dr martens like that).

'Would you like some naive opinions with your coffee sir?'

 

[user12345]

I would nick there boots. prob fall off like that.

 

[Bela Kun]

Some vintage MtS style discussion here... I almost feel like I'm vandalising.

I tried on the 'new' Levi's Sta-Prest today. Quite tapered. Permanent crease of course. Decent rise. The detailing is different from the old ones, but it is all right. Snug fit, if i buy one i will go one size up.
The gold/harvest color is much better 'in the flesh'. Close to British Khaki.

A quick shot
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I popped into the Levi's store ín Carnaby St today and had a quick look at those Sta Prest, but didn't have time to try them on. The material felt 'serious', quite unlike most sta prest out there.

The description read "sits below the waist", which didn't exactly entice me. But when I took a quick measurement, the rise was almost 11'...

The sales assistant said something like "most people wear them below the waist, but you can pull them up higher". I wasn't quite sure what to make of that. Alas, I had to run...

The less said about the rest of their stock, the better. Sadly, they've now discontinued their shrink-to-fit/raw 501s.

 

[user12345]

Pull them up higher and get the meat and veg strangled, ouch. 11 is better than some of the other brands at least but still not great.

 

[Clouseau]

Some vintage MtS style discussion here... I almost feel like I'm vandalising.



I popped into the Levi's store ín Carnaby St today and had a quick look at those Sta Prest, but didn't have time to try them on. The material felt 'serious', quite unlike most sta prest out there.

The description read "sits below the waist", which didn't exactly entice me. But when I took a quick measurement, the rise was almost 11'...

The sales assistant said something like "most people wear them below the waist, but you can pull them up higher". I wasn't quite sure what to make of that. Alas, I had to run...

The less said about the rest of their stock, the better. Sadly, they've now discontinued their shrink-to-fit/raw 501s.

Yes i noticed that the description had nothing to do with reality. They seem more mid rise to me, anyway a much better/decent rise than the contemporary Sta prest takes i have in my wardrobe.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

The most distinctive thing I can see in London photos is that they seem to have gone more or less direct from Mod to Suedehead and missed out on Skinhead completely!

Yet 'Skinhead' is what they called us!

Take a look at this photo (which I've shared umpteen times before). I used to go into my barber's in Brockley, SE4, and ask for "a skinhead cut." He would say "You mean shorter than skinhead," and he would give me the style you can see in the photo. You wouldn't quite call it a 'crop' by today's standard, but even so we used that word.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Just when I thought I was out ... they pull me back in!

Regional differences

It was actually the mechanism I was talking about, not the (rather tired) aspects of regional differences.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl child in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear Mistress, and Cure his heart !

 

[covskin]

Yet 'Skinhead' is what they called us!

Take a look at this photo (which I've shared umpteen times before). I used to go into my barber's in Brockley, SE4, and ask for "a skinhead cut." He would say "You mean shorter than skinhead," and he would give me the style you can see in the photo. You wouldn't quite call it a 'crop' by today's standard, but even so we used that word.

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Except for the higher parting that looks a lot like the normal 'short back and sides' you would get in a barbers. Was there nothing shorter, my mum always called cropped hair a 'crew cut' but it seems to mean something else on the internet. There was the association of cropped hair with nits of course...

 

[Botolph]

Except for the higher parting that looks a lot like the normal 'short back and sides' you would get in a barbers. Was there nothing shorter, my mum always called cropped hair a 'crew cut' but it seems to mean something else on the internet. There was the association of cropped hair with nits of course...

It was always a crew cut here, too.

 

[Bela Kun]

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Yet 'Skinhead' is what they called us!

Take a look at this photo (which I've shared umpteen times before). I used to go into my barber's in Brockley, SE4, and ask for "a skinhead cut." He would say "You mean shorter than skinhead," and he would give me the style you can see in the photo. You wouldn't quite call it a 'crop' by today's standard, but even so we used that word.

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The younger London kids often went a lot shorter though, didn't they? See no 2 crops in Man Alive docu. It seems to me there was a mini generational gap even in 69.

 

[Mr Knightley]

Yes, they did. Mine was like this in June 1967 (when I just turned 15) and got shorter up to mid-1969 and then got longer again.



Let's look at the progress of the older brother of one-time poster on M to S, 'bunty'. They hailed from SE England as I recall. We'll look first at 1968 when some of his friends were just picking up on the skinhead look. Then 1970 when the hair was starting to grow again and finally, 1971, when it was probably as long as it would get.


1968 at Butlin's


1970


1971 - skinhead style suit is still there - but the hair!