[Humour] Tight jeans and bovver boots

[Me and my Monkey]

Seem to be a la mode again amongst the young men. Any of you old buggers kept hold of yours and prepared to give them another airing?

 

[carlzeiss]

Not any more , the days of spending 1/2 hr lacing up my 20 hole docs have long gone . It's velcro trainers for me now unfortunately

 

[KZNSeagull]

I've got some walking boots, does that count?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Never a good look.

Matchstick legs and oversized clown shoes.

 

[marlowe]

Seem to be a la mode again amongst the young men. Any of you old buggers kept hold of yours and prepared to give them another airing?

I never stopped....

 

[marlowe]

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Hmmm. Can't get the image of Dick Emery out of my head

 

[Gabbafella]

All my jeans are tight.

 

[Marty___Mcfly]

All my jeans are tight.

And the sky is grey… [emoji445]

 

[GT49er]

Never favoured the look myself. Effin' skinheads witht their silly boots and poxy reggae records. Long hair, hipster flairs, tie-die T-shirts and decent rocking rock music, thank you!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Seem to be a la mode again amongst the young men. Any of you old buggers kept hold of yours and prepared to give them another airing?

Yep.

Albeit my DMs are the really expensive ones, and my jeans weren't quite so tight when I bought them.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Hmmm. Can't get the image of Dick Emery out of my head

I think of that every time the fairy posts on NSC

 

[BN9 BHA]

Never favoured the look myself. Effin' skinheads witht their silly boots and poxy reggae records. Long hair, hipster flairs, tie-die T-shirts and decent rocking rock music, thank you!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Never favoured the look myself. Effin' skinheads witht their silly boots and poxy reggae records. Long hair, hipster flairs, tie-die T-shirts and decent rocking rock music, thank you!

I don’t have a problem with Bob Marley, but in the ‘70s I was certainly more of your second sentence than your first!

 

[Live by the sea]

Clown boots for the unfashionable.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Funny, but as a Mod never wore dockers. Started going in '85 and apart from Zefarelli I never saw another mod. When I read NSC it seems like every other poster in their 50s was a mod. As for dockers, my 13 year old daughter has a couple of pairs. I have been trying to find pictures of all the boots piled high outside the North Stand to show her. If anyone has one please post it.

 

[GT49er]

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Actually no, that is a caricature of Spitting Image proportions.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Funny, but as a Mod never wore dockers. Started going in '85 and apart from Zefarelli I never saw another mod. When I read NSC it seems like every other poster in their 50s was a mod. As for dockers, my 13 year old daughter has a couple of pairs. I have been trying to find pictures of all the boots piled high outside the North Stand to show my her. If anyone has one please post it.

You started going in 85 ( to the Albion I guess ) and only saw one mod.
I wasn’t a mod, I like the clothes and music though. I would say posters in their 50s were Mods were probably into the scene in the late 70s and early 80s when there was a Mod revival. I was mid teens then and a few lads at my school were into it.

I’ve definitely seen that photo of the boots outside the North Stand, I think it was for the Arsenal match.

 

[GT49er]

I don’t have a problem with Bob Marley, but in the ‘70s I was certainly more of your second sentence than your first!

Fair enough - at the time it was the likes of Jimmy Cliff and Desmond ('Me ears are alight') Decker. TBH though, I never warmed to Bob Marley either ... each to his own.

 

[AmexRuislip]

On the subject of style, I posted this a while back.
The photographer is the son of my Wealdstone mate.
Fantastic shots.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/mod_uk