The Look goes on...

[Mr Knightley]

Ha ha! The last two pictures have been favourites of mine for a while. I think it shows that trousers were longer then - longer than perhaps we remember.

I thought the hat could work with this 1980’s Ferre x Redaelli jacket. What do you think?

 

[Thin White Duke]

It would look fine but it would have nowt to do with ‘The Look’ IMO if that’s what you’re asking.
I always say that at the extremes of temperatures there’s a sliding scale by which style (and adherence to any canon) starts to fade in favour of practicality. As for me I’d only wear a watch cap on the ski slopes and as I still have all my barnet - and spikey as it is - would suffer greatly once I got to the pub and doffed the titfer, the knits are not for me!

 

[Clouseau]

I think that this jacket could only work well with Mephisto shoes !!! Ha ha ha

Best DMR look? Without contest the dockers/kindda skin look. Their "Ivy Look" is terrible, looks like costume on them, and two sizes too big.

 

[Thin White Duke]

I think that this jacket could only work well with Mephisto shoes !!! Ha ha ha

Best DMR look? Without contest the dockers/kindda skin look. Their "Ivy Look" is terrible, looks like costume on them, and two sizes too big.

Everything was costume for Rowland.
He’s held up now as some kind of Ivy sauvant when in reality he was just the Ivy equivalent of an ‘identikit Mod’ -off the shelf packaging for every release. The bricklayer look (what the bell were they all carrying in their Gola bags?), the scruffy pikey look (they kicked ex Secret Affair drummer Seb Shelton out of the band half way through filming the ‘Come On Eileen’ video as he was complaining about the inauthentic bollocks of applying fake dirt on their cheeks!), then the Ivy look. At some point it was all track suits and pony tails, and more recently of course the very ill advised women’s underkegs. All costume, zero substance.

 

[Clouseau]

Funny as i was just thinking about how the C'mon Eileen look was terrible. The Chick in the video was nice though.

 

[Thin White Duke]

Funny as i was just thinking about how the C'mon Eileen look was terrible. The Chick in the video was nice though.

Isn’t that the same one looking like a boring secretary during the subsequent Ivy phase?

I remember Rowland getting interviewed around the time of the Don’t Stand Me Down release - perhaps by Richard Skinner? - who asked him ‘what’s with the new clean cut image?’ Rowland replied ‘this is not an image these are just the clothes I wear’ as if it was some kind of organic evolution that he’d gone in a matter of weeks from looking like a homeless tramp to a mid century business exec. He was also getting stick for refusing to release a single. The albums sales were poor and in the end he had to give in and release some single but the album failed commercially anyway. The bloke is basically a mess!

 

[Clouseau]

Isn’t that the same one looking like a boring secretary during the subsequent Ivy phase?

Nope. The boring one plays the violin.
The pretty one (not from the band) plays Eileen...

 

[Yorky]

Nope. The boring one plays the violin.
The pretty one (not from the band) plays Eileen...

Young Soul Rebels is a brilliant album, full of classics.

 

[Clouseau]

Young Soul Rebels is a brilliant album, full of classics.

Yes (Searching for the) young soul rebels is definitely a great album - and i liked their Look then. I preferred the leather jackets to the Donkeys though.
So many good bands at the time.

 

[Thin White Duke]

Nope. The boring one plays the violin.
The pretty one (not from the band) plays Eileen...

Ah OK.
I liked the first album too. But it used to piss me off that somehow skinheads latched onto the group so when we went to the local teen disco it was rammed with skins looking for trouble and they’d all go mental when the DJ played ‘Geno’. Had to show a clean pair of heels a couple of times from that place. Naturally we were always outnumbered. In all my encounters with skins I can’t remember a single time when the numbers were even.

 

[Thin White Duke]

Ah OK.

Yes (Searching for the) young soul rebels is definitely a great album - and i liked their Look then. I preferred the leather jackets to the Donkeys though.
So many good bands at the time.

I’ve got leather blazers in black (hardly ever worn these days, might sell it) blue and red!

 

[Clouseau]

I recently had a discussion with the singer of a 80s French band (still active) who had skinhead followers. He told me they probably prevented the band to have a larger success. We also talked about the most famous parisian crew then, and he said they were only really strong when they were numerous.

 

[Jimmy Balantyne]

Thank you, glad to know.
Got a new name for American Classics : Turkish Delight

Oh, I forgot the pair of big E's. So, that's five. Wow, AC'll be heartbroken to hear you're dissing them on the internet. Especially as you're such a high-roller.

 

[Jimmy Balantyne]

Going to need a Donkey jacket and bowling bag to complete the look Mr K.
As long as you don't copy this look. View attachment 1343323

Much prefer this look View attachment 1343324

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The trouser could do with shortening though

Don't Stand Me Down... Masterpiece. Kevin wound up giving me that jacket. Brooks Brothers as I recall.

 

[Clouseau]

Well you are another one @Jimmy Balantyne. I remember when i met you, you looked so great.
C'mon where is your sense of humor gone man (if you ever had one) ?