Last edited by formby (2011-07-24 15:17:15)

Really a great book, and written by someone who was deeply involved in the original styles.

I recently got that Day of the Peacock book at the top, it's excellent. This period is very exciting for men's clothing. It's also a fertile time for clothing authors. Plus, magazines and movies were now regularly shot in a color format. I love how the upper middle class slavered after the rock and roll lifestyle and the reverse and how the English admired the American look and the reverse. That Peter Sellers Movie "There's a Girl in My Soup" features a Sellers Dressed by Mr. Fish.


Mr. Fish was THE MAN!

We need some shoes from the period.

This footage of Mike Quinn is great, a couple of guys in some shocking 60s garb but some are dressed in the clean cut modernist style. Theres a big club weekend in London called Le Beat Bespoke on every easter. In the beat room there lots of people wearing the "Peacock" style, its all a bit rag-tag though, thread bare vintage and big floppy hats. I always get the feeling its a bit fancy dress. The "Modernist" room clubbers tend to wear the sharper gear that Carpu digs. The 60s retro (for want of a better word) dressers have split into two groups today. A lot of people tend to think that the two looks were from different periods with "Mod" bands like The Who, Small Faces ect ditching their mod clobber for the Peacock stylee later. Some say (no doubt because of the mod bands adopting the Peacock gear) that the flamboyant stuff was a extension of the modernist look. Though I disagree. However Mods were the first youth group to wear bright colours in fashion, in Howard Bakers book Sawdust Caesars he talks of people presuming Mods were gay because of wearing baby pink hipsters.


Anyway, for anyone whos still awake heres some footage of Tiles Nightclub in London showing the two styles together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZj0xsz4_9s

Last edited by Simon (2011-07-29 07:59:19)