Leather trousers
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Can a dude wear these non-ironically and successfully in 2012?
Who will own up?
No lederhosen.
Just looking at the Live & Dangerous inner sleeves and a raft of late 70s power pop 45 sleeves.
Alternatively, what were the maddest strides you ever wore?
I confess to b/w leopard spot drainpipes w/ fluorescent socks, black leather jacket with hundreds of studs and Crass t circa 81.
Please speak on it.
Who will own up?
No lederhosen.
Just looking at the Live & Dangerous inner sleeves and a raft of late 70s power pop 45 sleeves.
Alternatively, what were the maddest strides you ever wore?
I confess to b/w leopard spot drainpipes w/ fluorescent socks, black leather jacket with hundreds of studs and Crass t circa 81.
Please speak on it.
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Pics or it didn't happen
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Red velvet bell bottoms at age 16. So glad no photographical evidence is left.
"Leather trousers, yes or no?"
"ABSOLUTELY!" was the answer.
So I'm out.
Next thing you know you'll be calling sneakers "trainers".
Fringed loon pants studded with bells
Why not?
Punk was pretty much done and dusted by the time I was wearing what I damn-well wanted, so Ss. Zips-and-Shit had already sailed. However, I do have form in the way of waist-down satrorial crime:
X-amount of old jeans always hacked off just below the knee a la Schwarzenegger, washed to make the hem all scraggy, then worn with high scally-cred [scouse]srain-eeeez[/scouse] (think '84 Nike Equator / Flame or Adidas ZXZ) to alert man that this was not Care In The Community. Worn everywhere, in all weathers.
Some white Kid Creole (August, not Elvis) shits that were always soiled by Manc taxi detritus. White kecks never a good move unless you are Don Johnson.
'Nuff "Stonewall Jackson" pleated Rick Astley shits c 1987
Sky Blue Farrahs. Dead tight. Dem busk right open across No Man's Land second time out. My gonads breathed a sigh of relief.
I have a gray pair of Calvin Klein leather pants that work. They don't look really leathery.
I also have the handmade leather bellbottoms that my dad got married in, but I don't wear them.
And blue Cura??ao cocktails to match no doubt.
Friend had a pair of cords, one leg bottle green, the other deep red. A mess up at the factory supposedly, and uniquely naff, but he wore with pride. And no little amusement from the local and vocal.
'A Boy Named Sue' vibes, definitely. It was that era when disco-normal men started thinking more laterally about clothes, outside of the usual arty fashion victim set who have always dressed berserk.
FAIL.
The realer question is: Leather overalls with no shirt, Cam'ron/Jodeci style? In 2012? Ever? Let's say that theoretically that I've got some on ice in a garment bag in the back of my closet behind the safety-orange quilted vest and the back issues of Vibe--what's good? Are heads ready? Is it safe?
The most rodeo pants I ever wore in real life was this pair of super-baggy Duck Head corduroy slacks in black and purple houndstooth, purchased at deep discount from an outlet store somewhere in North Carolina in the early nineties. I blew out one of the knees in a house-party scuffle with some dude who kept trying to commandeer the stereo with his freshly acquired Monster Magnet cassette, so I cut the pants into shorts and--here's where it gets super-ugly--fashioned one of the cut-off legs into the kind of tie-top that was, as they say, the style of the time. I think I only left the house in my shorts/hat combo once, but it was one time too many, believe me.
(In a side note: When did soulstrut get so Thin Lizzy'ed the fuck up? I'm not mad or anything, but in the last year or so, it seems like this place is lousy with them dudes.)
You started it. Corpse-eyes-R.
Like Dolo, The Brits are finishing shit.
Leather overalls. I cannot believe I can even type that. A grave look.
My Black rocker buddies was rockin that shit. I thought i could put a Spin magazine on the look.
Simple black T and some black Chuck Taylors.
Something on the order of Will Smith in I, Robot meets Run DMC, meets 24-7 Spyz meets Blade.
I decided it was kinda too expensive for a look that i only rock once in a while.
Black denim is just fine.
But back on topic: I see the one Hoarvey in here--perhaps he can speak on his man Tupac's escalating the game with up-to-the-armpits leather hip waders. Failing that, perhaps he can speak on post-MDMA pant styles in 1990s Tejas.
Also, I wish my brother Terry_Clubbup was here to tell his parachute-pants story. That one's got it all: avarice, extravagance, disconnection, shame, pathos. It's the Here, My Dear of pants stories.
And this is only tangentially related and is perhaps for another thread, but can I possibly be remembering correctly that Rockadelic has a story involving a Gucci belt?
OH MY GOD
Brooklyn Disco Bouncer related.
No idea what you're talking about......but.....
There was a record dude from Oklahoma that we called "Leatherman".....big time record dealer.
He was about 6:5 and wore the same black leather pants, vest and jacket for the 10-15 years I knew him.
Had thick coke bottle glasses...the UK dudes can imagine a tall, thin Phil Tricker and that's what this dude looked like.
Died a few years back....wonder if he was buried in his leather....I'd bet he was.
OK...I'll fess up...was actually Oyster Bay.....6:2 with 6" platform heels.....hair down to my ass.....took a fist in the eye on my first night as Bouncer....became a bartender as a result.....chick I had a crush on since H.S. gave me a Gucci belt....I wore it.
I read something pertinent from Bill Adler where he's breaking down a pre-fame group photo of RUN-DMC, tracing their style continuum. He points out that DMC, wearing a woolen trench, was the most collegiate and had farthest to go; Run, in a grey (or maybe brown?) leather jacket, was closer, but not all the way; Jay, representing in the black leather, was there, and was explicitly the aesthetic beacon for the other two.
Can't think of any famous examples that can be Googled, but I definitely used to see older women rocking the leathers at (white) blues clubs in the 90s...
Goddamn, you will go down in the annals of Strut history as truly a man of greatness.
If you're looking for the history of TL round these parts, look no further than Mr. Baker. He is an unabashed lover of all things Lizzy.
But you already know this.