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Be worth it if only to give me the happy slap I so richly deserve.

Don't hurt yer sen on me suit though.  Just had a try on in the back garden. What d'you reckon?

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I like the kilt underneath!

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Guest Stuart T

Stuart: a better bet for wing tips might be Alden or Allen Edmonds. Proper shell cordovan (so called because the leather comes from a shell-shaped piece of the cow's hide) and still made in the USA. You can order them online from

www.allenedmonds.com

The ones you want are called MacNeil. More expensive than the ones you mention but worth every penny. You can also buy them from John Rushden shoes in London. Alden only have a couple of shops left now, but they make great shoes that unfortunately no-one seems to want to wear these days.

Florsheim make their shoes in Costa Rica now and the quality is not what it was.

Sorry if this all sounds pretentious, but shoes are important to some people...

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Ta very much, information gratefully received. blush.gif

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Can someone tell my bosses that pinks alright? I've been getting ripped all day for wearing a pink Fred Perry. :P

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to be honest you deserve that ......pink fred perrys are for girls blush.gif .... a pink button down is very acceptable though

Davie

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most people like to look smart and feel comfortable, hence no real fashion trends, also who wants to look a t%"t in their 40's/50's in baggy trousers and a vest with badges on not me.

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EACH TO THEIR OWN, MY MISSUS AND HER MATES ALL HAVE FULL CIRCLE SKIRTS AND SPENCERS (NEWLY MADE I MIGHT ADD NOT FROM THEIR YOOF, THEY WOULDNT FIT blush.gif ) WHICH THEY STILL WEAR AT SOUL DO'S HAVE ALSO SEEN A LOT OF GUYS IN BAGS, DONT THINK THEY WANNA LOOK LIKE TWATS THOUGH :P (DO WHAT YOU FEEL)

I FOR ONE THINK THAT AT EAST COAST SOUL, EASINGTON, BAGS & FULL CIRCLE SKIRTS GO WITH THE VENUE, BUT ALSO WE HAVE OUR FAIR SHARE OF YUNG UNS & OLD UNS IN TRAINERS & T SHIRTS. ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU ARE TRUE TO THE MUSIC :D

IM SURE YOU HAD "BAGGY TROUSERS" WHEN YOU DID THE FED MARK :D

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Its a struggle to get decent brogues anyway, Dexters have stopped production and Florsheim seem to be the last manufacturer of a decent oxblood wing tip.  If they stop production it will be the end of the civilised world as we know it.  I'll have to start wearing slip on shoes. :P

Or get the eight pairs in my cupboard re-soled blush.gif

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got my brogues from Jones - very good they are too, dont think they do oxblood though Stu.

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got my brogues from Jones - very good they are too, dont think they do oxblood though Stu.

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Surely you would need to go to a butvhers for oxblood not a shoe shop, honestly, you men biggrin.gif

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All About the SOUL CLOTHING ;

PS, If you want to know who in the queue are soulies and who are interlopers; look at the shoes.  Brogues or loafers; they're soulies. Anything else, they're impostors.  Footwear is the only thing not to have changed over the last thirty years.

Must have been an inteloper all these years then mucker, never wore any footware other than Trainers, even in my early days late 70s - then sporting either adidas kick or samba and I was not alone in my love for the 3 stripes at nighters back then. Never been a great lover of the soul fan uniform mind.

Certain trainers are great to dance in especially adidas Trim Trab, PVC sole slips a treat :P

Still get funny looks off some more traditonal nighter goers, especially when I wear my CP company coat with Googles in the hood. ph34r.gif

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Never been a great lover of the soul fan uniform mind.  :D

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Me neither.

I wear trainers a lot of the time, but wouldn't to a soul do. Less risk in slide-ability by wearing a brogue or loafer etc. Imagine getting to a do, hearing a great track, then moving to the dance floor in yer trainers only to find you're stuck to it ph34r.gif:P

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I never thought it possible until I tried but dancing in dessy boots is really easy and you can still slip and slide about in them too if the floor is good enough, you also dont risk sliding onto your bum as you would wearing leather soled shoes, I wear/take both depends on the venue/floor.

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I never thought it possible until I tried but dancing in dessy boots is really easy and you can still slip and slide about in them too if the floor is good enough, you also dont risk sliding onto your bum as you would wearing leather soled shoes, I wear/take both depends on the venue/floor.

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Wise to always take two pairs of shoes to a nighter, I do. Don't know about desert boots though. State of my shoes when I get home! Looks like they've been in a war zone. Dread to think what suede desert boots would look like after a nighter.

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Planning to wear a pink T shirt to the 100 club on saturday.

Anybody know if this acceptable?

Col.

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As long as you wearing kilt with it, think you will ok :thumbsup:

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There's a couple of books out that are great reads on the different styles of youth cult clothing - "The Way We Wore" by Robert Elms & "The Fashion of Football" by Paolo Hewitt.

They both chronicle the development of clothing from mod to skinhead to suedehead to soulboy. I had dismissed Elms as a new romantic / The Face mag poseur but he really knows his stuff & has detailed the clothing correct in all details. He goes into great detail on the different kinds of loafers & brogues. If you're 45+, you'll find it a fantasticly nostalgic read. But he is very scathing about the fashion sense of northern soulies in the 70s!

Paolo is of course a top modster & examines the styles of footballers & fans since the sixties.

Both books made me long to have a tonic mohair suit again.

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Paolo is of course a top modster & examines the styles of footballers & fans since the sixties.

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I know Paolo, he's a really nice bloke. Knows his onions about mod fashion, Weller, Gallagher's etc. Generous with his recreationals too ranting_1.gif

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All About the SOUL CLOTHING ;

Year's ago people wore string vests. They wore Wigan baggies, patent leather shoes, beer towels tucked through their belts. Girl's sewed weighted objects into the hems of their full skirts.

Now ... Nothing!  Why's that then? Could it because people have grown a little older and don't give too much of a toss really what they wear to soul do's?  I can remember owning and wearing baggy trousers and even patent leather shoes (never string vests or beer towels though).  These days jeans and a dark top, so as to not look too much of a fright if I dance a lot and get all a bit sweaty.  This the standard mode of dress for me.

I do see mods still smartly dressed at soul do's.  But the northern soul scene is still as much of a scene as the mod scene or any other for that matter.  So when soulies are still passionate about vinyl and other aspects of the scene, why not about clothes? Are northerners smarter than southerners, or midlanders?  Or as I suspect have we all slipped into mediocrity when it comes to what to wear. Or should that be what not to wear?

PS, If you want to know who in the queue are soulies and who are interlopers; look at the shoes.  Brogues or loafers; they're soulies. Anything else, they're impostors.  Footwear is the only thing not to have changed over the last thirty years.

PPS, Keb & the Sub Keb's Hawaiian shirts and turned up jeans are exempt blush.gif

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cant wear any thing like brogues or loafers now cos i got 2 big corns on the sole of my left foot and they kill me :shades:

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cant wear any thing like brogues or loafers now cos i got 2 big corns on the sole of my left foot and they kill me  :ohmy:

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Shit, you sure they're not verruca's? Unsual to have those on the sole's of your feet. Had corns on the knuckle part of toes before, ain't any kind of fun. Trip to the chiropodist for you asap me thinks old son :ohmy:

Got the p*ss ripped out of me Saturday night for wearing a vest :lol: Not from the off you understand, the more I danced, the more layers came off. Anyway I said I'd wear something outrageous and to me a vest is just that! Not worn one since I was 11. Fcuk it they're northern soul :yes:

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i orderd a new pair of Black Watch Tartan 32" bags with 5 pocket flaps each side on the back and 3 ticket poket flaps each side on the front from Spencers last friday and i'll have them by Friday this week, hand made and delivered in week can't get better service than that, Spencers top people :thumbsup::D

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Sideburns, Braces, Flares, Tatoos, over 5'7 under 13stone that suits me :D

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side burns -yes

braces - yes

flares - yes (bags)

tatoos - yes

over 5'7 - no (i am 5'7")

non smoker -yes

under 13 stone - no (i'm a little heavyer than that :thumbsup: )

5 out of 7 aint bad :D:D

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i orderd a new pair of Black Watch Tartan 32" bags with 5 pocket flaps each side on the back and 3 ticket poket flaps each side on the front from Spencers last friday and i'll have them by Friday this week, hand made and delivered in week can't get better service than that, Spencers top people :D   :thumbsup:

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They sound great. :D Not that many people go to the trouble of ordering specialist strides. How much?

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They sound great. laugh.gif   Not that many people go to the trouble of ordering specialist strides. How much?

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the spencers cost £85.00 or £65.00 if you send them your own material (i have 3 pairs spencers and about 8 pairs Roxy's)

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