Kewl Streetwear From yer Youth

[Shooms]

Some classics...

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[anthonyf218]

Berghaus bubble coats.

Everyone had the blue one but i had this gay-lookin one which i thought at the time was that bit cooler

[anthonyf218]

Anyone remember MACCANO clothes?

Mostly did sweat-shirts, think it was a Liverpool-based thing, as we used to buy in bulk straight from the factory nr Walton prison, but can remember them being popular all around the NW.

[very puddled]

ha ha took me back this thread......

anyone remeber "traffic" coats [ oh i mithered my dad for mine ]

and pony trainers with the amazingly huge flaps . ha ha ha , loved em

[anthonyf218]

Originally Posted by very puddled

ha ha took me back this thread......

anyone remeber "traffic" coats [ oh i mithered my dad for mine ]

and pony trainers with the amazingly huge flaps . ha ha ha , loved em

reminds me of a girl i used to know

[Lozzie]

i'm sorry, but it was shit like this



and



I have to say, the stuff like the Forest hills etc from the stuff all of you have put up...i would wear now...(i own some forest hills as it happens)...BUT you would NEVER see me in a helly hanson bubble or a pair of popper pants ever again!


Can I just say, blokes are wearing these again!!!!

[Duke]

my clobber as a kid was nike /troop /BK'S trainers ,had a load of fila & serrgio tacchini tops (my gramps new a load of whole sale ppl)& lacost polo shirts , i never wore jeans till about the age of 12 as the demin was 2 rough 4 my legs lol
i had a troop cap from 1 of the ub40 vids thats my ex girlfriends sis was in

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Troop
At the end of the 80s Troop sportswear appeared on the backs and feet of the second generation of hip hop artists, a Patrick Bateman-like statement of wealth that went hand in hand with huge gold chains and cars with dead massive exhaust pipes. The XR3i of sportswear, Troop trainers were covered in all sorts of unnecessary accruements - a see-through plastic bit in the sole, a stupid logo on the heel and of course, a tongue so huge it could sleep a family of four in relative comfort.
British Knights
A favourite with the early rave crowd, British Knights begged one question: What was a British Knight? Was it some ancient order of Arthurian warriors bent on defending the glory of Albion? Was it a secret Masonic organisation? Or was it an Amercian sportswear company who made boots so obviously rubbish, that only people who’d spent the 80s wearing Gallini and Bukta on the mean streets of Wakefield or Darlington would ever consider them remotely stylish?
Admiral
Admiral are the Mary Celeste of sportswear, disappearing for years on end before re-emerging from the ether with another batch of shit, unwearable clobber, usually made of shiny polyester. Their most memorable reincarnation took place in the mid 90s when the muzzie-sporting Happy Mondays were brought in by their advertising company in order to convince us that Admiral were in fact ‘old skool’. As opposed to the makers of the worst England kit of all time.
Prada Sport Trainers
There is a wise maxim that goes: ‘Thou shalt not, under any circumstances wear sports shoes made by any one other than a sportswear manufacturer’. Prada Sport proves this. The makers of this shoe got one thing wrong about this product: a trainer must be designed - at least on the surface - for some sort of sporting activity, even if we all know it’s only going to be used for hanging around off licenses menacingly. Prada trainers contravene all trainer law. They are not for anything, except drinking in identikit central London bars talking about sepia-coloured fashion spreads in Sunday newspapers. The fact that they look like a pair of geriatric slippers that Buck Rogers would wear when he got old only rubber-stamps their awfulness.
LA Gear
LA Gear trainers were bought by people who thought that authentic street wear had to have some sort of link to America. The fact that their LA Gear shoes had suspiciously thin soles, sparkly laces and a range of colours thought up by Zippy off Rainbow didn’t seem to put off the large numbers of clueless poshos and teenagers who bought these monstrosities in order to get hip to the beat.
Rugby League Tops
Up until 1990 rugby league manufacturers churned out the same kit designs year after year - simple, unfussy garments that while not exactly threatening Chanel or Armani, had a simplicity that reflected the down to earth nature of this incomprehensible game. However, with the advent of the Murdoch money and the Super League, the teams decided to inject some much needed glamour into their sport by adding ludicrous American-style suffixes to their names. Suddenly Wigan became the Warriors, Bradford, the Bulls and Huddersfield, yes, that Huddersfield, the Giants. Shirts-wise, out went the simple, clean lines of old and in came crazy splashes of colour, three-quarter length sleeves and big sponsors’ logos. Luckily, the fans kept a link with the past by continuing to wear half-mast Lee Cooper jeans and Hi Tec Silver Shadow trainers.
Travel Fox
Kylie wore them, Shaun Ryder wore them, even Tony ‘I used to present the weather on Granda Reports, in fact I still do’ Wilson had a pair. Yes, they were Travel Fox, the glamour training shoe that said, ‘I am a pop star and I live in a hermetically sealed bubble of bad taste and too much money, please feel free to laugh at me openly in the street.’ Most things the Italians design are low key tasteful affairs, yet Travel Fox appealed to that other side of Europe’s most stylish nation - the part that likes Buffalo platform shoes, sleeveless t-shirts and trance music.
Acupuncture
If Ultravox were around today they’d wear Acupuncture trainers. Think about it: Acupuncture shoes have space age bendy rubber soles, a preoccupation with the colour grey and a clumsy ‘A’ logo that sits atop the ridiculous velcro fastening they use. Appealing mainly to post-university Hoxton types who take their fashion cues from magazines full of pictures of skinny models wearing tank tops, Acupuncture are for people who decide to re-invent themselves as tag writing ‘graf’ artists after spending their first 18 years fagging for prefects at public school.

[Charlie]

Originally Posted by anthonyf218

Anyone remember MACCANO clothes?

Mostly did sweat-shirts, think it was a Liverpool-based thing, as we used to buy in bulk straight from the factory nr Walton prison, but can remember them being popular all around the NW.

I can remember blowing a full weeks wages at the time on a Maccano top and my mother going fooking mental when I told her lol

[Duke]

Originally Posted by Shooms

Some classics...

http://www.noflysonus.com/images/ren...1.gif&Size=340

i remember farah 4 pockets lol

[MANC]

Sprayway ^^ proper scally wear, and remember trainers and leather bumbags were in for a while, but worn over the shoulder and down across your chest tho for that late 80s early 90s Longsight gang member look

[easty]

Originally Posted by Lozzie

i'm sorry, but it was shit like this



and



I have to say, the stuff like the Forest hills etc from the stuff all of you have put up...i would wear now...(i own some forest hills as it happens)...BUT you would NEVER see me in a helly hanson bubble or a pair of popper pants ever again!


Can I just say, blokes are wearing these again!!!!

its a sad state of affairs when blokes are wearing pink v neck jumpers and carrying handbags, whats the world coming to today?

[Danny C]

Originally Posted by easty

its a sad state of affairs when blokes are wearing pink v neck jumpers and carrying handbags, whats the world coming to today?

Right I've got a brown Lyle & scott and I think its top.....lol

[tag]

yeah like Shooms my school attire was blue farah hopsacks with a round neck lyle and scott( in blue) with blue kickers,them were the days, oh and arrow astro turf trainers as,and pony nfl's

tag

[grover]

Here's me with my school mates - may 85 on the ferry to france lol

I'm on the left sporting an adidas tracky top, pringle jumper, ben sherman shirt and cp company cords.

One of the lads in the middle has a farah top on (lol remember them) and check out the size of the pockets on the lad doing a catalogue pose

[grover]

Originally Posted by anthonyf218

Anyone remember MACCANO clothes?

Mostly did sweat-shirts, think it was a Liverpool-based thing, as we used to buy in bulk straight from the factory nr Walton prison, but can remember them being popular all around the NW.

yeah i had a few maccano bits - the shop was by cavern walks

i think it's called cricket now