Honesty I find this stuff really interesting. A couple of pages back someone, it might have been you, mentioned that football fashion was driven from the terraces up. Unlike punk which was orchestrated by Vivienne Westwood, etc. which is something I'd never thought of. I'm a few years younger than you. There's no way you'd go to an illegal (as they all were) warehouse rave in a pair of Tourings.
That was my post. For me it was the real last working class street/terrace driven youth culture...driven initially by us, then Everton and kids around the city..nae involvement by "trend setters" or the advertising media...just kids at the game. in the city and mostly defined at the start by being on the rob everywhere we went.
if you look at what was terrace fashion here in the 70's you'd see kids from 14 to 19 weering Shetland pullovers and Harris Tweed jackets from Dunn & Co...mine cost me £80...it was hard to rob from there...
Sovereign rings too...first time I ever saw Fiorucci was on a girl in Cindys...one of the few clubs in town that let us in...and the girl wearing it had the sweatshirt and jeans with a pair of Gola on..first thing she said to me was where are yer trainees from la...Snorkel jackets..whose bright idea was that...they were good for going robbing in though
I recall at period in 80/81? when jockeys silks jackets was all the rage in Liverpool..the next year it was Sou Westers...it's always been a bit different here.
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