80s Casuals: The Fashion of an Urban, Working Class Culture, with a Love of Training Shoes and Designer Sportswear

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We’re in a vinyl state of mind this week. After Paul Du Noyer’s selection of his seven favourite album sleeves (and yours) we’re rather excited to discover a limited imprint series, launched by 80s Casuals chap, Dave Hewitson.! It probably seemed a good idea at the time, but letting a loony Liverpool posse loose over a weekend in Paris, and placing everyone in the same hotel, was always going to be a recipe for madness and mayhem, with music an optional extra.It was like being on holiday with a bunch of cranked-up randy schoolkids with absolutely no excesses spared”

Usually we do not allow this due to resources, but if we have the time to we'll accommodate customers as best we can. Friday night saw scally rappers Eat My Dog , performing for the very last time, and I can say with complete confidence (and without offending the band in the least) that they will not be missed.” If you wish to return any unwanted goods UK customers must return them within 10 working days from the day you receive them, with overseas customers having 14 days to return them. Please include a copy of the invoice in with your items so we know who they have come from. The returning goods should be posted via a recorded delivery with the buyer retaining any receipts in case the parcel should become lost in transit.Bill Osgerby is an author and professor with a focus on modern American and British media and cultural history — with particular regard to the areas of gender, sexuality, youth culture, consumption, print media, popular television, film and music. Amongst other he has published, Youth in Britain Since 1945 and Biker: Style and Subculture on Hell’s Highway My favourite gear from the 80's was both Fila and Sergio. I think the fact they were Italian tennis gear made them exotic. Fila BJ was the holy grail, Terrinda and the Sergio Dallas in light blue and cream was of another planet. I also liked some of the Fila colours from 83/84 when they got a bit nutty with colours, although I think I'd rather shoot myself than wear some of that gear now - but I still have a Terrinda in dark blue (worn by Charlie in the business) a Sergio Dallas and red Fila wham top (white stripes on left arm) in my wardrobe! The music is from different years throughout the 80's, so it's hard to define a year, but was there was a reason for this? A fitting end to a weekend that Martin Carrof the band has scant recollection of “ I remember one thing only. It was when I met my soon to be ex-wife”. Clearly he doesn’t recall his band drinking all of Eat My Dog‘s rider while they were onstage the previous night, but maybe we shouldn’t dwell on that.

This essay was curated by The Subcultures Network, which was formed in 2011 to facilitate research on youth cultures and social change, and commissioned as part of the National Lottery Heritage Funded project to build the online Museum of Youth Culture. Being developed by YOUTH CLUB, the Museum of Youth Culture is a new destination dedicated to celebrating 100 years of youth culture history through photographs, ephemera and stories. Above: The Little Book of Casuals: Football Fashion From The 1980s now available from 80s Casual Classics. SHOP NOWVinyl sales have gone up by 39% in the last two years, up to its highest level since 2005,” Hewitson says. “To me, that confirms that music is an artform that should have tangible presence.”! ! Southport is a small seaside resort, not more than 20 miles from Liverpool . During the winter months, the rain and wind swept prom is deserted apart from the odd retiree walking his dog. There isn't much call to pay the town a visit. The Pleasureland fairground is a ghost town and the swimming baths too cold. Come the summer months though and the place comes alive. The baths fill up and the car parks overflow with day-trippers, but best of all the fairground bustles with kids, parents with prams, boys and girls queuing for the rides. Being a half hour train journey from Liverpool , Southport becomes a week-end mecca for scouse teenagers determined to 'have a laugh.' Author Scottie was, and is, a regular football fan... who thought the 80s nurtured a shared, obsessive yearning to remain one step ahead of the terrace fashion curve. And every priceless priceless Lacoste, Fila and Armani designer clobber is now recalled fondly as a 30-yard cup final screamer. Everyone knows that if you’re from Liverpool you’ll have a passion for football, fashion and music. With 80s Casuals (which Hewitson owns with Jay Montessori) we get the printing done locally plus the embroidery and any sewing, and for the last eight years we’ve donated clothing to fundraising/ charity nights. It was through one of these nights that the chance to put out a single came about,” he says. Saturday morning brought bad news. Mass eviction. The entire party, some thirty or forty tired and broken souls were cast, unexpectedly, out onto the cold Parisian streets of mid-November, without much, or indeed any, notice. The hotel staff had seen, and heard quite enough of this particular party of travellers, thank you very much.

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It’s been overwhelming,” Hewitson says. “One or two well known bands have got in touch wanting to support the project and help out. We obviously need to sell a good percentage of each release so that we can generate monies to re-invest, so it would be fantastic to have some few high profile names do a song now and again...” But it’s more than that. It’s a quality thing too. It’s about fidelity. Listen carefully, here comes the science...! Good question. The main reason the film became a gangster film was because I wanted to set it outside England for the look. I didn't want to make a grey inner city 80's film (as we all remember it) - I wanted to make it look really flash and over the top so I decided to set it on the Costa del Sol, and as we all know there was a big community of gangsters living it up down there in the 80's - so that's why it was a gangster film. I wanted to show the rise and fall of Thatcherism and where better to do it than somewhere that was full of flash people with bundles of cash. In early 1998 to much furore Tommy Hilfiger opened his first flagship store in Europe. London being his Capital of choice. But what significance does this hold with Liverpool and its band of travelling protagonists? Three years earlier New York became the destination of choice as the youth of our city once again needed to quench their appetite for stylistic pedantry.

From there things sort of snowballed as a few more bands got in touch as they loved the idea. So we then decided to set it up as a ‘not for profit’ showcase for the bands, the sleeve designer, the studio, the videographer – everyone involved.”!Above: The Barbour International Small Logo T-Shirt now available at 80s Casuals Classics. SHOP NOW Vinyl is an analogue recording, whereas CDs are digital. Analogue captures the original sound, capturing the waveforms accurately, and capturing a truer sound to that played by the bands,” Hewitson explains.! The closest Outlet Mall to Manhatten is Woodbury Common and it was here that besides a Hilfiger store there was also a Lacoste store. Lacoste would become massive in Liverpool over the next 10 years and would eventually open its largest independent UK store adjoining Wade Smith in the city centre. Wade Smith would sell that much Lacoste over the years that the president and owner of the brand Monsieur Lemaire came for the opening of its new store and stated “Liverpool’s a bit like the Lacoste capital of the world and shows no sign of waning.” It could be said that he should have thanked the entrepreneurs who made these trips to New York for starting a trend.