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Last edited by One For Bop (2012-05-30 12:21:40)

Loving these pics!  Looks like quite a few are wearing venetians in the dance pics.

^It was an interesting time, you would still see bell-bottoms around and then there were those sporting the disco look of the Beegees, although they tended to be in their mid-20s. Against this, there was those dressing like they were in The Human League and the skally Incontinence pants look of the football terraces with ultra tight pants and short collars that were the ultimate rebellion against the remnants of the 70s hippyness. You would also see rock chicks with full denim on with badges of Status Quo and Thin Lizzy, you would pass them in the street. You don’t see them anymore.

In 1982 there were a couple of mod revivalists in our secondary school, one or two with parkas and The Jam shoe which you could buy in the NME, if I remember rightly. Gary Numan was considered a strange, weird alternative act. One of our teachers wore browline glasses, maybe even Shurons, but we viewed them as archaic and old fashioned. Certainly not hip like today.

By 83/84 it was very hip-hop and all about sports brands and the most expensive and rare trainers you could buy, it had become all too fashion conscious. A mate had family in the Smoke and he went down there one summer and came back complaining that no one was wearing tracksuits anymore and we were so out of the cool. Lacoste was the ultimate in exotic branding, you couldn’t buy it at home, only overseas and immediately had the status of travel to the Mediterranean and jet-set glamour.

I saw some photographs of classes from my old school in the early 1990s and one of the teachers looked like Midge Ure with his Vienna moustache. Perhaps it is the way with teachers to always dress 10 years too late?

some amazing pictures here and on Woolster's Princeton 1960 dance special thread!