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Stevenage skins. That lot had their own band as well"Paint house" a skinhead reggae band. Never did anything though,and were a bit before my time.If they had stuck it out a bit longer they may have cracked it with 2Tone.
A jolly day out.....
Did Tottenham have a big skinhead following? If the picture is the 70s Tottenham wouldn’t have been the only club though.
For some reason I imagine Chelsea & West Ham having the biggest population of such around.
In the original days(from what I can gather )all London clubs had a skinhead following. When it came back they did as well,but Woolwich seemed to get out of it quicker than the others. I remember one midweek game in 1980 everyone below 20 in the shelf seemed to be a skinhead or wearing skinhead regalia. Never saw it quite like that again though. Fashion's fashion though,it past for the majority on to the next big thing
The skinhead era then was possibly different from a couple of decades on "modern" skinheads are the national front ect or associated the far right! bit ironic if we did have a skinhead following coincidering we have the "yids" Jewish connection.
Not necessarily. Loads of skinheads were not much different to the ones that had come earlier, particurly the ones that got into it via 2tone. The right wing thing was over played by the media anyway.
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Totally agree, I was an original skinhead and got back into it 2nd time around as love the clothing.
Still by the clothing now. Only wear Levi's when I buy jeans and it has to be Ben Sherman Shirts, also have 4 Harrington jackets.
Fred Perry shirts or were they more mod and they ain’t cheap. Harrington’s burgundy was neat.
Me too, it was definitely just a fashion and music thing though. You were either a skinhead - Motown and reggae - or hippie. Never wore Doc Martens though, brogue shoes with striped laces.
Both wore fred perry.
Much of what mods wore so did skinheads a few years later. Skinhead came out of mod it was a working class rejection of the Hippy style that a lot of the middle class mods were going towards.
Fred Perry shirts worn by skinheads as well, don't like the burgundy Harrington as too near the Pikeys colour
Any photos? My mate is always looking for old photos for flyers for his old school reggae nights.
You could be universally famous then,not just among us Spurs fans
Loved the brogue shoes also the loafers. The only Harringtons worn originally were the black or turquoise colours.
Unfortunately no, the only photos I have around that time was in school uniform!!Any photos? My mate is always looking for old photos for flyers for his old school reggae nights.
You could be universally famous then,not just among us Spurs fans
Sharpe's skins arent racist.....nazis stole the whole thing