That's well put, Alex.  But I remember English skinheads as simply looking brutal in their crombies, jeans and boots.  This would be around 1970.

Obviously all of this is pretty crucial stuff as for my next essay. I've already asked Chris and John to help me out once again and have approached a few others too. Please do feel free if you were there to contact me privately ( Kingstonian ? ). My aim is as usual to try and shed some new light on a subject that has been covered before although basically always as a sideline. So I'll try to capture all of that in one piece and will hopefully be able to add some interesting thoughts.

I do have a pretty clear idea as for the format already but, once again, I won't be able to do it properly without your help......TIA,

Alex

Horace, how on earth and where?

Yeah, some Japanese guy selling on Ebay said he'd look into it for me next time he was over there.

Holding my breath!

Last edited by Alex Roest (2008-11-11 04:30:11)

That's an astute observation, about grammar school kids from a working class background.  My grammar went comp during my second year, and the harder, smarter kids were over there, showing the way - no uniform as such, no headmasterly crap about not wearing red socks with brogues.  Younger kids tended to wear brighter colours - stripy socks and tank tops - older hardnuts darker gear like crombies and lairy bastards Budgie jackets (but not daft cloggies). 
Prince of Wales check was huge, and I remember, circa '72, affecting a velvet two button jacket (lorra laffs!), P of W baggies and platforms (eek!)  My mate and I ventured into Nottingham and almost instantly got manhandled by some of their lads.  We pair had to talk over way out of it PDQ. 
Of course the stuff was cheap or borrowed; only Docs really cost money.  It was all paper rounds and stuff, or nicking. 
I do remember seeing the odd crop still, but only on boneheads.  The lads who pulled had centre partings.