(12-12-2019, 07:44 PM)Guillermo Wrote:(12-12-2019, 02:59 PM)metatron Wrote: I like the use of brogues with workwear. It reflects the vintage aesthetic where 'smart' shoes aren't anything 'fancy' No need to go workwear top to bottom.
I really dislike the modern notion that you save your brogues for interviews and weddings.
Is that really a thing? Brogues aren't specially fancy for a wedding or an interview. Actually they're the worst choice
Technically, yeah, but bearing in mind you're in the Age of the Trainer; to someone for whom a suit is "for weddings and funerals", any traditional leather shoe is a "dress shoe". Oh brave new world....
(01-20-2020, 02:40 PM)Tommy Wrote: '...Alternative Ulster, Grab and change it—it's yours!..'
Great mixing in of sjc there, old punks don't die, they just get into vintage clothing! Although unfourtunately I was too young to enjoy the Clash till the mid 90s, I got quite emotional when I went to the exhibition.
Likewise! I discovered punk rock just about ten years too late (1989, to be precise - but then that was the year I turned fifteen; I doubt I'd have gotten into many gigs in 1979 at the age of five ;-) ). The 1991 re-release of The Story of the Clash Vol 1, on double LP, soundtracked my GCSEs that year.
The cover of London Calling is probably the most iconic image of British punk Rock (just ahead of Jamie Reid's God save the queen sleeve) - internationally, probably only the cover of the Ramones' eponymous debut had the same influence. (And, of course, it all links back to Elvis, who could have been the original punk if Woody Guthrie hadn't been....).
It was really something to see that bass in person. I'd probably have eaten it if I could.