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#1 2013-01-20 00:50:58
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(Post) Industrial Style Chic: The Inspiration of The Miners Strike
Yet more manifestations of the nostalgia for the industrial age in Blighty:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/19/working-class-hero-miners-
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#2 2013-01-20 06:24:02
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Re: (Post) Industrial Style Chic: The Inspiration of The Miners Strike
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/19/working-class-hero-miners-fashion
Jesus...
I had a donkey jacket at 6th form.
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#3 2013-01-20 06:29:05
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Re: (Post) Industrial Style Chic: The Inspiration of The Miners Strike
''Fashion is looking to the 1984 miners' strike for inspiration.''
Well then fashion really needs to have a word with itself.
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#4 2013-01-20 06:54:36
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#5 2013-01-20 06:59:36
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Re: (Post) Industrial Style Chic: The Inspiration of The Miners Strike
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#6 2013-01-20 07:02:47
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#7 2013-01-20 07:14:19
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Re: (Post) Industrial Style Chic: The Inspiration of The Miners Strike
Even TV-AM were openly hostile to Labour without any compunction for objectivity at the time.
Michael was chums with Hemmingway when he came over the war and they hung out together. For that alone, I've always thought there was hidden depth to the champagne socialist. The donkey jacket episode alienated him from the WWII crowd and I remember my grandfather held him with utter contempt over this. Of course the media rattled the cages and played it for all it was worth.
In any case, anyone who is getting sartorial inspiration from Scargill or the miners strike clearly wasn't around in '85, and dare I say it, is sartorially challenged.
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#8 2013-01-20 07:41:27
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#9 2013-01-20 07:44:27
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Re: (Post) Industrial Style Chic: The Inspiration of The Miners Strike
Artfully placed make-up cuts and bruises to echo those dished out with such abandon by Thatcher's re-deployed police?
Anyone remember the Comic Strip pastiche 'The Strike'? That's the vibe I'm getting here - a poorly understood and over romanticised version of reality so far removed from the truth as to be of zero value to all involved.
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#10 2013-01-20 08:01:51
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#11 2013-01-20 08:11:31
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We dont need any of the clothes we buy except as a means to be the star in the film of our life populated by constructs - FNB
#12 2013-01-20 08:32:18
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Next season they are doing Famine chic inspired by that Ethiopian 80's look. So current!
#13 2013-01-20 08:35:58
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#14 2013-01-20 09:11:23
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#15 2013-01-20 09:26:44
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#16 2013-01-20 09:50:55
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#17 2013-01-20 11:04:09
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It wasn't actually a donkey jacket though - Foot was apparently quite pissed off about the accusation. I'll see if I can dig up something on the internet about this.
#18 2013-01-20 11:20:24
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#19 2013-01-21 03:46:43
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Re: (Post) Industrial Style Chic: The Inspiration of The Miners Strike
Clearly that's not a donkey jacket, but he is scruffy compared to his neighbours.
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