STREET WEAR HISTORY
The guard of culture 'Roger K. Burton' talks about
the history of British Youth fashions
08 11/5 UP
Text:Andrew Bunney Translation:Mayumi Horiguchi
- Punk (1976-79)
- L :
- There were so many rip-offs. This looks Westwood/McLaren, but it is all fake – fake from the time. They were famous for the anarchy shirts, reusing their stock of Wemblex, dying them and bleaching them and sticking political slogans on them.
The Wemblex shirts were from Portsmouth. A few of us were travelling around the country, trading addresses; one of us located this manufacturer in Portsmouth. They sold jeans, but prior to that they made shirts and went under the name Wemblex. Malcolm had gotten there before us, and he bought a lot of them to sell with his Teddy boy things. Because he couldn’t sell them all, he started to customise them and sell them as anarchy shirts in a later shop. We were buying them and selling them to the Japan as plain Wemblex, deep collar, tab or pin-through. Mid sixties, Dave Clark(n.10) style.
These pants were from another Kings Road punk outlet called Smutz. - R :
- Original Seditionaries muslin top. A mini tartan skirt, a fashion one of the times.
The boots were sometimes just dead stock. - n. 10: Dave Clark;
It is shortened words to The Dave Clark Five. The Dave Clark Five was an English Beat group in the 1960s. Also known as "The DC5".
- Punk (1976-79)
- L :
- Full Westwood Bondage suit. Straps galore, jacket and pants. Cox boots that they customized.
- R :
- She’s got the same boots, same pants in white, customized blazer, armband was from 5th Column(n.11). Sid t-shirt, very limited edition.
- n. 11: 5th Column;
A fifth column is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group to which it is expected to be loyal, such as a nation. The term caught on and was used extensively, especially by those fighting the Fascists and Nazis. It was especially in wide use in Britain in the early stages of the Second World War.
