[Football] Have ultras, vloggers and CCTV killed football fashion?

[junior]

I must be in the minority, but I've never even thought about what I'm going to wear to the football. Quick check of the weather forecast to see if it's shorts or jacket weather, then it on with whatever is to hand that isn't in the wash!

 

[Brownstuff]

What was the idea behind a scarf on the wrist in the old days? Think would have given that a big swerve

 

[Wardy's twin]

What was the idea behind a scarf on the wrist in the old days? Think would have given that a big swerve

because if it was around your neck it was easier to grab , pull head forward to thump or head butt......

 

[Justice]

If you wear snide gear you are missing the whole point about the casual scene. It was partly about young working class men wearing expensive clothes only the upper classes could afford and bringing it to the terraces. Aquascutum, lacoste, adidas originals etc were not made for the masses back then and were expensive items. I remember saving up for gear with paper round money. I used to like Stone Island in the 90’s and we used to pay the guy weekly in the shop back then as it was so fecking expensive. Stone Island originally only made limited numbers of items so you would rarely see someone else with the same jacket, now days I believe they sold out to someone else and it’s now made on mass which has ruined the whole idea of it.
Anything I buy today is still carefully selected as I’ve always liked my clothes and prefer quality over quantity.

 

[rebel51]

There's some very iffy Brighton and Sheffield Utd casuals in this photo,the Movember charity must have made a fortune in the 80s

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That was the one when Sheffield utd fans thought they would take liberties with brighton, and promptly got chased back where they'd come from by brighton. Mid 80s last game of season. Happy days

 

[Guinness Boy]

I like stone island but you can tell by what the person looks like if it’s fake. I don’t like the foreign fashion of all getting together to put on a show with man at front with megaphone. It seems, and I hope I get this gets past admin, a bit “gay”. And us english can’t organise a line for the urinal let alone 200 chanting down a street in the same colour clothes.

I’m sure we’ll all be fine with that but, just out of interest, what in your vast experience of gay culture drove you to choosing that adjective?

 

[studio150]

I thought football fashion had been replaced by wearing replica shirts. If we are going back to fashion PBOBE won't be happy as commercial income from replica kits drops away

 

[Brownstuff]

because if it was around your neck it was easier to grab , pull head forward to thump or head butt......

Ok thanks but don’t wear a scarf in the first place.

 

[A1X]

Surely if they aren’t prepared to risk arrest they’re just a bunch of prancing pussies?

 

[Justice]

Casual fashion started for me forty years ago when as a young man I used to go to Stuarts in Hammersmith to get my fix of Sergio.Still regard myself as a casual even though I am approaching sixty.

Still there today I sometimes have a browse

 

[Justice]

I preferred the early eighties casual clothes, we can thank Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe and Ronnie Corbett.

Was it the perm at the back or the wedge

 

[faoileán]

"The Casual Scene"... what a loud of utter bollox that was. " Look at me everyone, I've just bought a yellow and pink golf jumper and had some blonde frosting on my mullet...don't I look smashing"

 

[Justice]

Surely if they aren’t prepared to risk arrest they’re just a bunch of prancing pussies?

Surely if they aren’t prepared to risk arrest they’re just a bunch of prancing pussies?

You don’t just get a clip round the ear anymore for football related disorder. It’s really not worth it and probably why you don’t really see it these days I would imagine.

 

[AK74]

Excellent book, a copy of which can be found on one of my bookshelves:

 

[Wardy's twin]

Ok thanks but don’t wear a scarf in the first place.

shirts were not very common in the 70's...... and to be fair most people who look for trouble don't wear their teams colours.

 

[Justice]

Excellent book, a copy of which can be found on one of my bookshelves:

I heard one of the authors got themselves into all sorts of shit over that book regarding the Albion related content.

 

[AK74]

I heard one of the authors got themselves into all sorts of shit over that book regarding the Albion related content.

That wouldn't surprise me.

But it certainly captures an era off the pitch.

 

[origigull]

How about some of these bad boys!! I remember when Chelsea came down in 73 in the FA Cup, some of their fans were wearing butchers coats like these. Who remembers this fashion statement. Who wore the one from the BHA museum.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Excellent book, a copy of which can be found on one of my bookshelves:

Another book coming out this year

A CASUAL LOOK BOOK 2

I co released A Casual Look in 2003. This new 2023 solo book details my casual journey from 1984 covering unseen photos, clothes, articles, adverts plus time with Brighton, Germany Euros...

acasuallookbook.weebly.com

 

[Justice]

That wouldn't surprise me.

But it certainly captures an era off the pitch.

Indeed, I bought a copy in the Bell still have it somewhere.