Were you a music and Fashion victim in your youth?

Not really. I dressed in normal country dress that was timeless ...

ATB from George

Mod, parker and leather jacket. Ben Sherman shirts, Levi 401 jeans , DM shoes or desert boots.

There was a fad of french striped Ts and powder blue jeans, fortunately short lived.

Still wear Bennys, Levis and DMs, (not the same ones,BTW).

In the 60s I was entirely at the mercy of my parents. They were firmly working class, not skint but definitely not well off and I generally wore ill-fitting stuff my father's mates came up with at well below shop prices. For such a confirmed socialist he never questioned where all these so called bargains came from and certainly never asked my opinion on how I felt about wearing them. I was an embarrassing fashion disaster to be honest and I still cringe when when I think back.

As a student in the early 70s I was a wannabe hippy. Jeans, t-shirt and desert boots were my usual wardrobe, all as cheap as I could get them. A parka for bad weather and that was it. For my one and only protest march I wore a new pair of jeans and blue desert boots. It pissed down for the whole four hours of the march and when I got home, totally saturated, I found my legs and feet dyed a beautiful royal blue colour and they stayed that way for several weeks after. Happy days.

1981/82...a bit of a mod revival at my senior school. I was usually dressed in a green parka with a " The Jam" patch on the front and the compulsary "The Who" patch on the back. Button down shirts, black inch wide tie, sta press trousers and either a pair of black DM shoes or a snappy looking pair of Jam shoes.

Most of the school ended up wearing a green parka which enventually got banned as the playground had turned into a sea of green.

Sad to admit but i still have the parka and Jam shoes tucked away in the loft.