Looking rather fetching in his white suit, a look also favoured by Messrs. Presley, Lennon and Hopkirk, Clapton would have been looking out at a crowd not sporting Cream or Blind Faith tee shirts (back then rock and roll merchandising was still in short trousers) and nor would his disciples have been wearing anything with a designer label. No, what Clapton would have seen was three thousand guys and gals dressed in garments like these:
Or, more likely, these (note the subliminal cigarette advertising):
Just as well the term fashion victim hadn't been coined back then; there are two pages full of embroidered loons, velvet loon jackets, Danish clogs, male clogs, brushed denim dungarees, genuine RAF overcoats, shaggy pile jackets, cavalry boots, velvet caps, square neck vests...I could go on, but I think you get the picture. As Paphides says, these are historical documents. If you want to know what was going on (or to see what the natives used to wear) during a particular time frame, look no further than back issues of the British music press.
Love the back page ad's in my era - it was tonic suits, leopard print (so stripe print} jeans, crombies, Jam shoes and Bowie style pleated pegs.. Or dreadful iron-on style tees..
ReplyDeleteHave a nosy round here for a fab gallery vintage male dressage..
Or Paul Gorman's The Look currently running some great investigative pieces on McLaren's Anarchy shirt and the 'manifesto' tee
Pleated pegs! Good name for a band. Remember Brutus jeans? I think it's still David Dundas' pension plan.
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