Memories, Rock Follies and Budgie

[ginger dave 63]

My pride and joy was a prince of wales check crombie, brogues were the bees knees, plenty of segs made them awesome!

[desertdog 149]

Great Adam Faith tale Ditch.....

 

And 'three star' jumpers Wilky......Feckin classic, just sat on the top of the waist line on ye 'Birmingham bags'.... Bermo's round here!!

 

 

It was Oxford bags round here mate, two tone jobs with a two inch turn up and loafers polished to death, the high waisters thing never lit my candle, but then as I got to about 17, it was the Levi stay press, Ben Sherman shirts and a number 1, never had it back since, I never was over fond of the Crombie, but I really loved the Arrington jackets, didn't like em in black, I had a beige one and a red one, everything just seemed so cool, a smart skinhead.

 

Our kid was into the eye make up on one eye, white bib and brace and brolly, shiny docs, clockwork orange job, he was older than me, and when he came home with the book, my old fella stapled up the back pages so I couldn't read the language explanations, but I remember my favoutite quote "Great big yarballs to thee and thine"

 

Tell you what, when you look at the scruffy little fuckers in trackies and Fred Perry's now, there's just no comparison is there.

the budgie cafe was at the bottom of dixon hills road, welham green, herts, we,d go in there after ferreting in the area, they were good days, they pulled it down in the early ,s my goodness i feel old.