Sartorial error
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nomadologist
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Exactly!
I remember wearing cotton "Hammer" harem pants in black with some kind of gilded print and the full-on half-slit-on-the-inside-leg ankle that had a matching t-shirt with BUILT-IN vest in the same print as the pants, with gold bottons. So you didn't even have to suffer the indignity of having to purchase and don a vest separately. They really took the guess work out of "trendy" for you!
I believe this was from Sears and my grandmother bought it for me in 4th grade. If I can find a picture at my parents' I will definitely put it up.
What always gets me about topman are the shirts with bad jokes about blowjobs/tits/fannies on them. 'While you're reading this I'm looking at your tits' and that sort of thing; what sort of fucking twat looks at one of those and thinks 'I'm guaranteed to score with this thing on'?!
It's an alright place to get cheap jeans, and I have quite a nice red jumper from there. I bought a load of socks there once though and they were full of holes within weeks.
swears
preppy-kei
Ugly fella wearing that stuff = sad, unfunny perv
Handsome fella = adorably irreverent and "cheeky"
STN
sou'wester
Both = Hollyoaks type twat.
I had these extraordinary Reef shoes, each the size of a small city (a small, electric-blue city). I do recall thinking 'hey, this is the 90s, the apogee of fashion, how will anyone look back and laugh at THIS?' Oh dear....
In my early teens (middish 90s; no excuse) I crafted myself this absolutely preposterous coat; it was a long, crombie style coat from Aquascutum (I actually think it was a woman's coat, looking back on it), which I'd 'customised' with zips and Sex Pistols and Dead Kennedys patches. The piece de resistance was a huge Adam and the Ants backpatch. Writing it down, it sounds like it could be kind of cool but I looked SUCH a cunt in it - my dad told me I deserved to be beaten up for wearing it. I thought I looked wicked-cool, but actually I looked like Robin Goodfellow in some shitty 'trendy' amateur version of 'Midsummer Night's Dream'.
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nomadologist
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I'm going to have to second STN on this and say that both of them are completely undoable losers.
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nomadologist
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You may be right, I don't know anybody who would wear a shirt like that really.
In general I'd much rather shag nice looking people, myself.
It's funny that "shag" is common-use over in the UK, here it's very Austin Powers...
In general I'd much rather shag nice looking people, myself.
It's funny that "shag" is common-use over in the UK, here it's very Austin Powers...
when i was really young i had a blue ski jacket from tescos i worse all the time.
and a cap i wore all the time, i also had some trousers with zips all over that i liked, plus a really day glo acid patterned t-shirt top i got in france i wore all the time. New rave clothes basically.
i loved it.
i had some quite bad clothes and hair rave era - dodgy shaved under curtain hair and dodgy ethnic trousers with a hoodie, and a big clunky blue jumper.
at 6th form i had a swiss army coat which had a dead sheep inside pretty much, it was very heavy quite long and a bit smelly, but if it wasn't for my manky hair skate shirts etc it was potentially a stylish coat.
things improved stylstically for me a bit more when i got a bit of cash and didn't smoke so much weed, you don't care abut clothes so much if you're going to blim them up all the time, and i skated so practical clothes always overtook style, really.
the worst thing i ever owned but didn't wear very much was an african skullcap when i was about 15. not appropriate for walking around a west country city.
and a cap i wore all the time, i also had some trousers with zips all over that i liked, plus a really day glo acid patterned t-shirt top i got in france i wore all the time. New rave clothes basically.
i loved it.
i had some quite bad clothes and hair rave era - dodgy shaved under curtain hair and dodgy ethnic trousers with a hoodie, and a big clunky blue jumper.
at 6th form i had a swiss army coat which had a dead sheep inside pretty much, it was very heavy quite long and a bit smelly, but if it wasn't for my manky hair skate shirts etc it was potentially a stylish coat.
things improved stylstically for me a bit more when i got a bit of cash and didn't smoke so much weed, you don't care abut clothes so much if you're going to blim them up all the time, and i skated so practical clothes always overtook style, really.
the worst thing i ever owned but didn't wear very much was an african skullcap when i was about 15. not appropriate for walking around a west country city.
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bassnation
the abyss
i saw some idiot with a blowjob t-shirt get turned away from a restaurant. was middle of the day and lots of families about, i mean for christs sake. his girlfriend didn't look happy to say the least.
matt b
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You're kidding, right? I'd never wear that stuff today, but I still think this silly late 80s skateboard look is cool ... sort of.
A friend of mine still has a pair of Airwalk Vic from that time that he wears occasionally.
it's the original new rave look innit.
airwalk high tops
. vics had the flap over the laces right? yukm zone in carnaby street was the mecca for that look. horrible day-glo berets included
i quickly moved onto jeans, shirt and vans and it ain't changed much since (though i stopped wearing skate shoes when i stopped skating)
it's the original new rave look innit.
airwalk high tops
vision shoes had the flap didn't they, so you never burnt out your laces.
i totally love those garrish late 80's skatey skull thrashy tees.
matt b
Indexing all opinion
vision ones had a flap you could hide (vertical rather than horizontal, iyswim)- see hidden version on bottom left here:
http://whenwewasrad.co.uk/wp-content/images/84/rad84_64.jpg
http://whenwewasrad.co.uk/wp-content/images/84/rad84_64.jpg
i wish i still had my skull skates tee
vision had that amazing
subliminal messages:
satan heroin fuck tee - clear gloss on black matt shirts. - so cool.
it's the original new rave look innit.
airwalk high tops
m zone in carnaby street was the mecca for that look. horrible day-glo berets included
i quickly moved onto jeans, shirt and vans and it ain't changed much since (though i stopped wearing skate shoes when i stopped skating)
A bit more punkrock than new rave I think? Dunno, I've never seen someone I'd associate with new rave in person.
Yes, Vic had the big flap over the laces.
I still wear skate shoes, but only very understated models, no big logos. Some brands are really comfortable and durable.
They should've cooked the bastard. seriously, nothing but pure hatred for these people...