Now would probably be the time I could start a rumor that red "power ties" worn with crisp white shirts and navy blue suits reveals one's sexual tendencies. But, I won't. Cuz I'm a good sport, like that.

good find uncle jack - but whats the meaning of the Boss- having a red baseball cap hanging from the right hand side rear jeans pocket .

perhaps he enjoys cottaging.

bloody hell - now theres something -I haven`t thought of in decades- cherry reds.

Mr.Smart did you ever have the monkey boots-I think you could get them at the Famous Army stores ( I got my first ever pair of levis there in the 70`s)

Also - and I think you will probably have the answer to this- ( Iv`e been racking my brains but can`t remember) what were the Doc- rip offs called

they were called -Sargent ....somethings.

thanks for the stroll down memory lane.

Isn't the Guards tie the blood of the royal family & the blood of the men in the corps or somesuch?
That might just be a story.

Girls wore Monkey Boots more than chaps in the UK. Smaller, lighter boots and all that. Although original Skingirls would not have worn boots & braces at all.

I kinda like that early smart skingirl look - finding good pics on the Net is very hard - Anybody got any nice links?

Feathered 'Chelsea' haircuts (not crops), loafers and kinda lacey tights (not fishnets), long legs, big eyes, not butch at all.
I think Modcult.'s Mr. Bomber wrote nicely about them in his 'Chip Shop Girls' essay (not read that for a while - I must dig it out again). Anybody remember that?

Again they're more a part of Suedehead than Skinhead in style now you look back & see what Skinhead mutated into. Where did it all go wrong?

I remember overhearing cheap lookalike Docs being called 'Sargent Peppers'. But I was out of the loop in that world so the name could have just been a jokey play on the real name of the brand. This would have been around '77.

The coded laces thing, as GS says, was never universal. People would argue about what meant what, I am informed. Again, I lived through all this but it passed me by.

CM touched on "The Handkerchief Code" in his leader post on this thread and that went even further into what colours of handkerchief in which pocket meant what. Again this wasn't universal and there were differences between the US & the UK, and even in the US between NYC and San Francisco as to what meant what.

The Boss's baseball cap thing is interesting. At a glance it looks like a handkerchief. Look again and you see that it's not. What did Bruce intend us to think? He is obviously playing with Gay iconography here. It also plays with The Stones "Sticky Fingers":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B000000W5N/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_3/002-8260695-9819220?ie=UTF8&s=music&index=3#gallery

None of this stuff is whithout meaning. Bruce may be straight. Bruce may have known nothing of the handkerchief code. But Bruce's LP sleeve comes from an industry with more than a few homosexuals in it and would have been art directed and marketed and targeted very knowingly.

So what's the story?

Last edited by jack_sparrow (2007-09-14 01:30:31)

More hidden meanings in ties:

Royal Tank Corps - The Brown of mud, the Red of blood and the Green of the fields of Flanders.

http://www.smartturnout.co.uk/acatalog/Royal_Tank_Regiment.html

The Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst) - The ingredients of gunpowder: Yellow Sulphur, Blue Saltpetre, Black Carbon.

http://www.messdress.com/ishop/820/shopscr331.html

j.


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