The dastardly red Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 Today my friend in London told me that there's quite a big anti-fashion movement going on in the East of the city. It's basically wear whatever you want to wear, no questions asked. Apparently it takes about 2 years before the clothes and haircuts that are fashionable in Shoreditch filter down to the high street by which time the original trend setters have moved on and are laughing at the people buying into the old styles and cuts. So will be interesting to see how this plays out. He mentioned that hair products and shaped beards are very much out for men. He said that it's about not really bothering and that the preened look is being laughed at a lot. Not sure if he's got this right but he also said that there's a lot of mocking of men wearing tight t-shirt. Personally I like a man in tight clothes, but that's just a taste thing I suppose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 4 hours ago, The dastardly red said: Personally I like a man in tight clothes I could probably change your mind in that regard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 4 hours ago, The dastardly red said: Apparently it takes about 2 years before the clothes and haircuts that are fashionable in Shoreditch filter down to the high street by which time the original trend setters have moved on and are laughing at the people buying into the old styles and cuts. So will be interesting to see how this plays out. Twas ever thus though, nothing new there. It is even immortalised in songs like Dedicated Follower of Fashion and Jumping Someone Else's Train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 shoreditch dont sound all that to me. whats a gastropub? drinking out of snails?? and noodle bars, that says a place full of weirdos yo me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 53 minutes ago, redsquirrel said: shoreditch dont sound all that to me. whats a gastropub? drinking out of snails?? and noodle bars, that says a place full of weirdos yo me Shoreditch is a great night out. Ten Bells followed by Blues Kitchen for food and excellent live music and then onto a late night pub Crown & Shuttle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lager loud Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 11 hours ago, The dastardly red said: Today my friend in London told me that there's quite a big anti-fashion movement going on in the East of the city. It's basically wear whatever you want to wear, no questions asked. I knew if I stuck to my guns the fashionistas would catch up with me eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 Beards are a weird one. I had one in the mid-80s when only myself and Peter Hook dare be seen in public with one. Shaved it off after a year as it appeared to be limiting my sex life! Then about 1998, I grew one again. At the time, I seemed to be the only man in West London with facial fuzz, but gradually a sprinkling of beardies appeared at work and on the streets. Then they got really trendy, and now it's got to the stage where the vast majority of men under 40, plus quite a lot of oldies, seem to have beards. Consequently, I now shave mine back to medium stubble. Always be ahead of the trends, not following them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 7 hours ago, redsquirrel said: shoreditch dont sound all that to me. whats a gastropub? drinking out of snails?? and noodle bars, that says a place full of weirdos yo me Shoreditch is pleasant enough but, to be honest, it has influenced pubs and restaurants across the UK to a point where it isn’t anywhere near as strange and exotic as all that. Bristol is very Shoreditch-y and I’ve even been in pubs in North Norfolk with massive gastropub leanings. I drink in Shoreditch occasionally but it is pretty much streets with pubs and restaurants much as any other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Red-Robbo said: Beards are a weird one. I had one in the mid-80s when only myself and Peter Hook dare be seen in public with one. Shaved it off after a year as it appeared to be limiting my sex life! Then about 1998, I grew one again. At the time, I seemed to be the only man in West London with facial fuzz, but gradually a sprinkling of beardies appeared at work and on the streets. Then they got really trendy, and now it's got to the stage where the vast majority of men under 40, plus quite a lot of oldies, seem to have beards. Consequently, I now shave mine back to medium stubble. Always be ahead of the trends, not following them. I did take part in Moustache March earlier this year (which differs from Movember in that, rather than growing a moustache from the first onwards, you have to end February with a full beard and shave it down to a moustache on Moustache Monday, which is the first Monday of March) However this was a combination of lockdown boredom, a desire to see what I looked like with a moustache and curiosity as to whether I could convince anyone Moustache March was a real thing rather than something I had invented. (My brother believed it.) Generally speaking, I have a beard when I cannot be arsed to shave and no beard when I remember to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 6 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said: I did take part in Moustache March earlier this year (which differs from Movember in that, rather than growing a moustache from the first onwards, you have to end February with a full beard and shave it down to a moustache on Moustache Monday, which is the first Monday of March) However this was a combination of lockdown boredom, a desire to see what I looked like with a moustache and curiosity as to whether I could convince anyone Moustache March was a real thing rather than something I had invented. (My brother believed it.) Generally speaking, I have a beard when I cannot be arsed to shave and no beard when I remember to do so. I had a moustache during a brief "Midge Ure in Ultravox" period when I was in my teens, but I don't think any charitable occasion would make me grow one back. Generally, nowadays, aren't moustaches only worn by squaddies, police sergeants, elderly gay men and blokes from Hull? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 Just now, Red-Robbo said: I had a moustache during a brief "Midge Ure in Ultravox" period when I was in my teens, but I don't think any charitable occasion would make me grow one back. Generally, nowadays, aren't moustaches only worn by squaddies, police sergeants, elderly gay men and blokes from Hull? I would I say looked like a combination of two from those four but shall leave others to speculate on which two... The moustache survived five weeks of work, two board meeting, a job interview as a candidate and a job interview panel as an interviewer. It went when I had a meeting with someone who I respected professionally but had not met and I decided I could not go through with meeting them looking how I did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 We`ll know that the unkempt look has become a thing when we start seeing footballers looking like extras from Planet Of The Apes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lager loud Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 21 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said: I had a moustache during a brief "Midge Ure in Ultravox" period when I was in my teens, but I don't think any charitable occasion would make me grow one back. Generally, nowadays, aren't moustaches only worn by squaddies, police sergeants, elderly gay men and blokes from Hull? I ‘did’ Movember once, a few years ago, the only time apart from a brief misguided spell in the 1980s when I’ve had facial hair for non-lazy reasons. That November coincided with me giving a series of training sessions for the bank I was working for at the time, and I was asked if one of the sessions could be recorded to use at a later date. So somewhere out there is a three hour film of me giving a presentation on investment bond taxation in The Gherkin whilst looking like a fat John Alderton (for those of you too young to know him: trust me, it wasn’t a good look). I left the bank a few months later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 1 hour ago, lager loud said: I ‘did’ Movember once, a few years ago, the only time apart from a brief misguided spell in the 1980s when I’ve had facial hair for non-lazy reasons. That November coincided with me giving a series of training sessions for the bank I was working for at the time, and I was asked if one of the sessions could be recorded to use at a later date. So somewhere out there is a three hour film of me giving a presentation on investment bond taxation in The Gherkin whilst looking like a fat John Alderton (for those of you too young to know him: trust me, it wasn’t a good look). I left the bank a few months later. Can you send me a video, Please Sir !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 6 hours ago, LondonBristolian said: Shoreditch is pleasant enough but, to be honest, it has influenced pubs and restaurants across the UK to a point where it isn’t anywhere near as strange and exotic as all that. Bristol is very Shoreditch-y and I’ve even been in pubs in North Norfolk with massive gastropub leanings. I drink in Shoreditch occasionally but it is pretty much streets with pubs and restaurants much as any other. Oooh, guess where I am this week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Fordy62 said: Oooh, guess where I am this week! lidl?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 7 hours ago, Fordy62 said: Oooh, guess where I am this week! Can we have a clue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 30 minutes ago, Slacker said: Can we have a clue? Holt - who goes there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 19 minutes ago, Fordy62 said: Holt - who goes there? Yatton ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILINFRANCE Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 2 hours ago, Fordy62 said: Holt - who goes there? Villa fans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 7 hours ago, Fordy62 said: Holt - who goes there? i got it,............. flambards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 Holt is small village in Wiltshire just west of Melksham - just in case some posters didn’t know that. I think there’s another Holt somewhere in East Anglia. Played at Holt BC a couple of times many years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevedon Red Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 16 hours ago, Fordy62 said: Oooh, guess where I am this week! Ipswich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 Stranraer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 9 hours ago, Fordy62 said: Holt - who goes there? Pretty certain the gastropub I was referring to in my post was somewhere in that vicinity. It was definitely on the road to Cromer but not in Cromer itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Slacker said: Stranraer? Stranbloodyraer? What`s he doing in Stranbloodyraer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Slacker said: Stranraer? Worked there for a few months. Nice area of Scotland, even though it’s a little quiet. This was in the winter months though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted June 1, 2021 Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 FORDY!!! fancy doing that tut tut tut showing them how to do it properly again? Holt house hit by three cars 'at risk of collapse' - BBC News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The dastardly red Posted June 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2021 For anyone interested, there's a fascinating documentary about East London gentrification called "The Street". If you've got Amazon Prime you can watch it for free via a BFI trial subscription. A very good watch it is too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted June 2, 2021 Report Share Posted June 2, 2021 On 31/05/2021 at 07:25, Port Said Red said: Twas ever thus though, nothing new there. It is even immortalised in songs like Dedicated Follower of Fashion and Jumping Someone Else's Train. was just thinking that sounded familiar from a Billy Bragg song (not having listened to loads of The Kinks) and then realised I was thinking "dedicated swallower of fascism" from his song Accident Waiting to Happen and that this whole time it was a reference that I'd never known before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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