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Blue and light blue check Miami vice suit jacket with rolled up cuff and mullet of course 86
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Waffle jumpers and cardigans some with skiers on.were a thing for a while before I graduated to Gabicci Pringle and Lyle and Scott and looked like a poor man's Ronnie Corbett.

There was also a lot of burgundy about in my early teens which for some reason I embraced.

Dyed wedge haircut leather box jacket waffle jumper and moccasins all in that colour.
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When I was about 10 I must have insisted on a pair of cream & burgundy "jam" shoes cos I remember having some, and a pair of beige "pegs" strides. I remember going to Maddiesons holiday park in Littlestone (KENT) thinking I looked the bollocks  
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Farmers denim dungarees  in the early rave days  WTF LOL
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In my younger days me and some of the team I worked with, having far more money than sense, would often pop down the road from work (during working hours) to Brent Cross Shopping Mall and buy far too much designer clothing (Lacoste T-shirts and the like).

Most simply stayed in my cupboard until one evening, for reasons lost in the misty haze of time, I decided to start wearing them - but insides-out.

Fuck knows what people in the posh village of Radlett though, though - that I was probably out on day release from Shenley Mental Hospital just up the road.
 
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Inspiral carpets lead singers barnet..for someone with thick course hair it wasn't my finest turnout.
Also travel fox high tops...fuckin ell..
I was 20 odd too...what a cսnt
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I'm still doing them 
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Far Cough UKunt" wrote: 24 Mar 2026, 21:06 I had a pair of red platform shoes that Elton John would have been proud of.
Me too, silver stars and all. Bought them in Carnaby Street.
I keep them on the shelf as a reminder of my misguided youth.
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I had a pair of red platform shoes that Elton John would have been proud of.
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Nightclub attire late 80s. Burgundy shirt, burgundy cardigan, yellow fabric pencil tie with gold tie pin. Grey sta press trousers with black loafers to finish. Lord alone knows what I was thinking! At least I didn't add white towelling socks with it. Did I pull? No!
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wils wrote: 24 Mar 2026, 18:21 Odd fluorescent socks in the eighties.



 
That would be perfect set off with a Global Hypercolour T shirt
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Curtains with an undercut hairstyle. What the fuck was that all about? 😂
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The multicoloured mullet I had in the 80s was pretty inexcusable.
Being in various bands lead to some pretty tragic combinations this one being the oddest.
Flying boots, silver shakeskin lycra trousers, bullet belt and UV flourescent (we had a blacklight strobe) psychedelic face and body paint suited the band in my mind.
 
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Is it too soon to mention green cotton loons?
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This was pretty much me around Bethnal . . .

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I am cracking up LOL toy soldiers 
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There was a short phase in London soul boys to dress like toy soldiers.
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Odd fluorescent socks in the eighties.

 
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Yeah, The Cure. 
 
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There's a lot of Robert Smiths around but the best one that fits your description, Nurse is Robert Smith from the Cure?
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Nurse Ratched" wrote: 24 Mar 2026, 16:17 As a teenager I back-combed my dyed black hair and walloped on the thick kohl eyeliner. I cut about in a leather skirt and mismatched fluorescent yellow and pink socks. In my head I was an ersatz Siouxy Sioux. In reality I probably looked more like Robert Smith.

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Nurse Ratched" wrote: 24 Mar 2026, 16:17 As a teenager I back-combed my dyed black hair and walloped on the thick kohl eyeliner. I cut about in a leather skirt and mismatched fluorescent yellow and pink socks. In my head I was an ersatz Siouxy Sioux. In reality I probably looked more like Robert Smith.
AWWWW nasty LOL
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Age 11

Starsky cardigan 

Green canvas Woolworth trainers 

Chopper bike 

Job done 

 
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As a teenager I back-combed my dyed black hair and walloped on the thick kohl eyeliner. I cut about in a leather skirt and mismatched fluorescent yellow and pink socks. In my head I was an ersatz Siouxy Sioux. In reality I probably looked more like Robert Smith.
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Gank.  Some of the clobber i bought, definitely can
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Yellow trousers orange seasider shoes walking down the A13 to Beckton cringefest
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