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Post by hibbiejim on May 20, 2019 17:04:15 GMT
Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Turn to the right Oooh, fashion! We are the goon squad and we're coming to town Beep-beep Beep-beep.
So fashion throughout the years. When i went to secondary school the original skinheads were all the rage. Thats when many housing schemes formed different gangs.
My first real fashion was the next one after skinheads. With a number two cut or similar were the suedeheads. Still had the ox blood doc martins. But also brogue shoes. 'Slade' socks, sta press trousers, ben sherman shirts, braces and either harrington jackets or crombie (style) coats.
Then when i was 16 came the boot boys. Long hair, Doc martins (painted silver in my case), white skinner trousers rolled up above your boots, levi jackets and (again in my case) ben sherman shirts.
Then punk arrived and it was torn shirts/t shirts sometimes hand painted slogans.
And after punk ran its course came the Joy Division look. All in black and 'shoe gazing' lol.
I wished I'd kept all the auld photies.
So c'mon folks lets be hearing about your trek through youth culture.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 21:33:07 GMT
So long ago! Graduated High School in 1972. Beatles all the rage. Their Meditation/India phase<<<Madras plaid shirts were all the rage. You washed them, the dyes would bleed and THAT WAS THE POINT! hahahaha
I had a black cotton tunic with tiny mirrors sewed on it that I LOVED. Yes it deserves CAPS. So cool I was.
Long flowing hair. Most of us who could get by with it,abandoned our bras whenever we could. Cut-off jeans in the summer. Pulled the cross threads to make a nice fringe.
Most of us made our own clothing. One yard of 60" wide fabric was enough to make a mini-skirt. Lots of wide belts.
Thanks for the post Vlad. Had not taken that particular trip down memory lane in years~
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2019 11:41:24 GMT
Great thread! Oh my, I still have two things with tiny mirrors on them. One is a sarong type piece of material in sage green from India I think. The other is a top in maroon I found in a good second hand shop with most mirrors still intact and also from India. Both would be considered quite hippy'ish by today's standards. My friends think I still am, though technically I'm too young to have been a hippy and don't really have much any more that looks like that era. Though several years ago there was a 60's theme parade that year in Provincetown and you could go hippy or go go dancer it seemed....so my children were visiting from England and all raided my closet to find things and this is what we came up with.... P.s.These are two of my children and their partners who are now my son and daughter in law. My youngest son who was a teenager then was not dressing like this and was photographer. Haha, just realised the sage wrap with mirrors I was wearing here over my skirt and it's the only thing I still have of these pieces of clothing and I borrowed the hat from a friend.
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Post by hibbiejim on May 22, 2019 20:02:28 GMT
Good posts folks. Back in the day hippies were an outlet for youth aggression lol.
Manys a time when you were out with your mates and trying to avoid other gangs some long hairs would come flying past being chased by a mob of skinheads or boot boys shouting 'get the hippies'.
Alas no peace and love was shown to said hairys.
There is a book about Glasgow in the 30's called No Mean City. It's about the razor gangs.
Anyway the lads from the scheme always tried to meet a lassie who wasn't a 'hairy'.
Hairys were poor lassies who couldn't afford a hat.
A nice wee bit of trivia there for yous.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2019 20:16:07 GMT
Great pic Willow! I'm so happy that someone else had a 'mirror dress'<<<Wish I still had mine now, but I wore it out wearing it~ LOL
Vlad<<<tough neighborhood you were in for the hippie types. Yikes! Did everyone wear hats? If a woman wasn't wearing a hat did it signal she was easy or something> Or just too poor to afford one?
Did they call 'em 'hatties' and 'hairys'?
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Post by hibbiejim on May 22, 2019 20:41:08 GMT
All the schemes were much the same for hippies. They usually only got chased when there were no other gangs about. Aye hairys were lassies too poor to own a hat. A lassie with a hat could look down on the hairys in disdain. And if a laddie was winching a lassie with a hat then he was moving up in the world. This word was used a lot in the book No Mean City, a story about life in the Gorbals and folk living in poverty. Even those wummin wouldn't have went out without a hat. The Hairys were the lowest of the low as they went oot bare-headed because they coodny afford a hat. wiki.brillyunt.com/Hairy
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2019 23:15:04 GMT
Wow. Really good to know, hibbie. Thank you.
Well, Stumour (another Glaswegian) will vouch for me I'm neither a hippie nor a hairy. Born too late. To me a hippie was someone who was old enough to go to Woodstock. I was not.
But, being a dancer much of my life, among other things... and no, not that kind of dancer... but ballet, modern, african, contact improvisation the last few years... my clothing style has gone through many reincarnations.
In England (where I lived 19 years), I never wore jeans, but skirts and leggings and different tops most often. Once I moved back to the States, though, jeans crept into my style again and my job the last ten years does not require 'business dress', so I wear jeans a great deal with various tops, depending on my mood, except when I'm in a dance class, performance, or dressed up to go out, which is not often. Also here on Cape Cod it is so casual people don't even dress up to go out. :(
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Post by hibbiejim on May 23, 2019 7:44:20 GMT
Ooooooo that was a low blow lol calling me a weegie (thats Scottish for a glaswegian).
Glasgow. Where they get salt and vinegar on their chips. Heathens.
Edinburgh though where i come from is glorious. Salt n SAUCE. Thats what WE get on our chips.
No doubt slice will appear and claim the weege is better than Edinburgh.
But we have a massive castle right in the centre of town.
Beat THAT gadgie.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 12:17:03 GMT
Oops, again. You spoke of Glasgow, hence my blunder. Please forgive. I have a new, older and already very dear female friend here who has lived in the States many years, like I did in England only in reverse, and she hails from the beautiful Edinburgh. Sadly for all the years I lived in the UK, I never got to Scotland and hope to one day.
My eldest son and wife live in Leeds, so not so far from you, while my daughter and hubby and grandcherubs live in Exeter. I was in London 7 years, then Tavistock, Devon, on the western edge of Dartmoor 12 more years before coming back to the States and for the first time to Cape Cod. Many say it has an American version feeling of Cornwall here. Not really, but quite lovely and quaint and tiny compared to the rest of the country with water on three sides and boats and artists galore, only flat and sandy beaches compared to the gorgeous cliffs, ancient fishing villages and mostly stoney beaches of Cornwall.
So, perhaps we could safely continue on the fashion track, though that got me in trouble too. 🙄
Have a question. You say salt and vinegar on chips is not fashionable or done in Edinburgh. What about on fish? The English seemed to put salt and vinegar on both, or at least in Devon they did. though I'm not a fan, nor of sauce I don't think either... honestly not sure what you mean by sauce. This is where my american roots stayed with me and ketchup was my choice, which will probably not go down well with you either, unless sauce is ketchup. But if not, I apologise now for yet another blunder, or two....
You definitely take the trophy for your castle! They are sadly missing from the vast expanse of this continent.
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Post by hibbiejim on May 23, 2019 12:57:17 GMT
I worked down near Tavistock. We visited Dartmoor prison. Very desolate place. Now in englandshire they ask for fish and chips. But up here we ask for a fish supper. In the weege you get asked if you want salt and vinegar. In glorious Edinburgh they ask do we want salt n sauce. The sauce is a brown sauce diluted with vinegar. So OUR chippys are far superior. A couple of pickled onions is optional but very tasty to include. Ketchup on a fish supper is a hangable offence. Beware. You also eat your fish supper with your fingers. None of this poncy knife and fork nonsense. And you wash it down with a wee bottle of irn bru. We have a new chippy opened at the bottom of my street. The first chippy in the scheme since i can remember. A polish geezer opened it. And it is boss. Everything fresh. I'm smacking my lips. So cheers. Fish supper for my tea the night. community.visitscotland.com/discussion/1178/salt-sauce-or-salt-vinegar-that-is-the-question
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Post by hibbiejim on May 23, 2019 14:27:46 GMT
Now i see i can add images to a post. So yous will get a wee gander soon at a fish supper with salt n sauce and a couple of Hector Nicols.
If it's deep fried it gets eaten in Scotland.
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Post by hibbiejim on May 23, 2019 16:11:03 GMT
So here in all its glory is a Tino's Jolly Fry fish supper with salt n sauce and a couple of pickles. Boss
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 23:16:01 GMT
Ahhh, making me hungry....nothing like real fish and chips. They just don't do it right here. And it only tastes right using fingers!
Love there's our site in plain view too!
Dartmoor prison is bleak. Princetown is. But the rest of Dartmoor I loved. Loved the light and colours at different seasons, and the mist at night certain times of year! Hound of the Baskervilles weather!
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Post by cbgb77 on May 25, 2019 14:51:36 GMT
I still have a "fringe" jacket I bought in 1970. I think they are "back in style" now,lol
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Post by hibbiejim on May 25, 2019 16:04:34 GMT
CB C'mon gadgie lol. Bet you never wore that when stiv bators nearly croaked at toads place eh?
Very ahem countrified i think is a good word. And please tell us you sported a mullet hairdo lol.
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