Thanks Admin

casual days were my favourite

ps, i wonder if brummieblue still turns up at the bridge in his sheepskin or donkey jacket

Good article i enjoyed it thoroughly

I seem to remember a lot of the older lads at Liverpool having wedge cuts plus all the sportswear brought over from European aways. That was early 80's.

Footballers with top hats, monacles, and smoking pipes.

Hounslow's I had a sheepskin myself. I got to admit that I passed on the Donkey Jackets. If I had a Council job then maybe I be wearing them all day long.

Knotty Ash, yeah I forgot that. I had the soulboy wedgie hairstyle also - late Seventies first with blond and then later red highlights

Things you do when you're young

The Purple Arsenal Kit!

"plus all the sportswear brought over from European aways. "

my recollection is that it was "bought" with a five finger discount.

Benetton rugby shirts were a favourite back in the mid eighties, along with adidas first tracksuit tops, and grand slam, or trim trab trainers.
Happy days.

Gotta be the perms of the 80s...

I remember having a ruler at school with Keegan and a few others on it.... All sporting perms, it was a thing of beauty

Trabs, Munchens, Vilas and Grand Slams were the shoes of choice.
Siempre is right about how the goods were purchased. I got a Kleim tracky top off me cousin after a trip to France.

Wade Smiths tiny shop on Slater street was a gold mine for imported trainers.

Adidas Samba, I missed that also. Regulation issue for Football fans circa 1979.

The Docs army! Seeing mancs dressed in tartan was funny! Just loved them days!

I remember Wadeys on Slater St. When it moved to Lord St I practically lived in their and Probe.

KnottyAsh, Adidas Gazelle, do you how many colours did/do they come in? Seems like every colour of the rainbow.

Knotty

Thought you scousers have been stuck in shell suits since the late 80s

Jack Sharpes on Whitechapel was always worth a look.
Remember persuading my mother to get me a pair of Borg elite back in about 83 from there and being absolutely made up.

Trakkees & trainees for the scousers these days

Great article Ccs................

The Guvnor was and still is Stone Island
As soon as all the snides started coming out we used to and still remove the compass badge so as to be less obvious. However, with the two buttons still attached, those in the know were/are still able to recognise it as the genuine article.

Ccs do you remember a few of the lads wearing Deerstalkers with Pringles back in the late 80's? That just used to make me plss myself laughing.

It looked like a squad of Sherlock Holmes wannabes walking down the Kings Rd

Originaly adidas gazelle were only really available in blue, which was the best colour, since then they have been produced in every colour under the sun.

Remember when we were kids on holiday in north wales in the early eighties, laughing our heads of at the mancs in their plimsoles and berms.
You could spot them a mile off.

As soon as all the snides started coming out we used to and still remove the compass badge so as to be less obvious. However, with the two buttons still attached, those in the know were/are still able to recognise it as the genuine article.
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Chaz, even now when I'm out and I put my Stone Island jacket down I take off the badge also and put it in my pocket. Sometimes it don't pay to advertise.

Feck me, yeah I remember the deerstalker boys. WTF was that all about

jlou. I remember going to a holiday park in North Wales. All the manc kids had those cord jackets with the furry collars and meffy trainers.
We were all dressed up in Benetton, Kickers etc. We used to batter them each night.