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#51 2013-06-04 02:55:23
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#52 2013-06-04 02:58:42
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#53 2013-06-04 03:03:59
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The look was far more common than you realise.
If you were in London and you were not a hippy, or a nerd, you wore button downs and Royals and mohair suits to dance halls. It was all there for us. We did not need to research it, or follow strangers to discover where they bought it - you found out at school. It was school kids who wearing this you seem to forget.
Simple as that. Sorry to shatter your illusions.
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#54 2013-06-04 03:06:31
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"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#55 2013-06-04 03:13:18
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#56 2013-06-04 03:18:18
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#57 2013-06-04 03:18:28
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I am not sure what levels you are soaring towards.
Blunt reality was this was very suburban. (Bentalls was not a key shop in all this though) People mostly went outwards to socialise, not 'Up West'.
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"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#58 2013-06-04 03:25:39
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#59 2013-06-04 03:53:28
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Not many socialised Up West though I knew some. Very different to mod in that respect.
Now you are saying Bentalls was peripheral - a source of income for shoplifters.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#60 2013-06-04 05:10:21
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How times have changed shoplifters (hoisters) now just do it to help feed their addictions.
Not usaually a clothes addiction either.
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#61 2013-06-04 06:08:21
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#62 2013-06-04 06:16:38
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#63 2013-06-04 06:58:24
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#64 2013-06-04 07:05:49
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^great post. I thought KR seemed rather humble too. It would have been easy for him to place himself at the centre of all this, but he hasn't.
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#65 2013-06-04 07:10:22
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�Careful with that axe Eugene.�
#66 2013-06-04 11:14:58
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Perhaps the number of post Mod, pre skinhead adopters was quite small. Not many people recogise the early stages of transition. Also perhaps the early adopters of a simplified Mod-casual look distinct from the scene were small and outside the city.
#67 2013-06-04 11:35:09
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If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#68 2013-06-04 12:19:35
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#69 2013-06-04 12:36:36
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The idea behind it might be centuries old, as our topstitcher suggests, maybe just a specific London version of a more universal idea?
Listen to Mohair Sam, Jack that cat was clean, Mr Soul, Johnny Reggae
These songs do not mention the word face, but mohair sam and mr soul have a similar attitude to the high numbers "I'm the Face", which was just meaden's words to slim harpos choon...
Meaden certainly hadn't made it up.
Simply means what it says: someone you know, a face that's recognized, for whatever reason, all the other stuff, top dresser, top dancer, or some sort of leader of the pack are associations, that went along or came later...
I've heard it often and it was mentioned many times in OM5966. Some suggested that it was a Jamaican thing, or that they used it to?
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#70 2013-06-04 12:41:24
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If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#71 2013-06-04 12:46:28
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If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#72 2013-06-04 12:58:29
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#73 2013-06-04 13:05:42
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Hmmm, I wonder if its any of Colin MacInnes work?
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#74 2013-06-04 13:07:29
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The first example of blatant modsploitation!
Ivy League jacket, white buckskin shoes!
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#75 2013-06-04 13:14:26
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