Good question. The main reason the film became a gangster film was because I wanted to set it outside England for the look. I didn't want to make a grey inner city 80's film (as we all remember it) - I wanted to make it look really flash and over the top so I decided to set it on the Costa del Sol, and as we all know there was a big community of gangsters living it up down there in the 80's - so that's why it was a gangster film. I wanted to show the rise and fall of Thatcherism and where better to do it than somewhere that was full of flash people with bundles of cash. Above: The Little Book of Casuals: Football Fashion From The 1980s now available from 80s Casual Classics SHOP NOW These days I'm a Spring Court man. Simple french pumps with peppermint soles to prevent smelly feet. Also, as I am from South East London, I still have white Reeboks!!!!!!!!!

A fitting end to a weekend that Martin Carrof the band has scant recollection of “ I remember one thing only. It was when I met my soon to be ex-wife”. Clearly he doesn’t recall his band drinking all of Eat My Dog‘s rider while they were onstage the previous night, but maybe we shouldn’t dwell on that. We arrive at our hotel, the classy Hotel Silken next to the famous gherkin shaped building. In fact, the gherkin is that famous I can’t remember its name, but it looks great from the terrace as we take in the surrounding cityscape and decide whether to take a dip in the rooft op pool. Th e hotel is perfect for us old fogeys, stylish and comfortable. Not one of them cheap and cheerful, ‘it’ll do, it’s only a bed for the night!’ type places for us. Th e younger element thinks it’s cool too, apparently the Arctic Monkeys recorded a video up here. This essay was curated by The Subcultures Network, which was formed in 2011 to facilitate research on youth cultures and social change, and commissioned as part of the National Lottery Heritage Funded project to build the online Museum of Youth Culture. Being developed by YOUTH CLUB, the Museum of Youth Culture is a new destination dedicated to celebrating 100 years of youth culture history through photographs, ephemera and stories. Above: The Barbour International Essential Logo T-Shirt now available at 80s Casual Classics. SHOP NOW

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Due to the current Covid-19 Pandemic, delivery services may be slightly delayed via Royal Mail & DPD* I thought, let’s keep this 80s ethos going, and do a limited run on coloured vinyl,” Hewitson (right) says.! We currently ship items to a variety of countries within the EU and the rest of the world. As with any other delivery each one needs a signature as they will be sent via Royal Mail International Signed For or via DPD. With countries outside of the EU parcels will usually be delivered within 5-10 working days, but on the odd occasion parcels can be held in customs and this can cause some delays.Whilst non Eu countries will be saved UK VAT charges any local Customs or import duties are charged once the parcel reaches its destination country. These charges will be paid by the recipient of the parcel.

It probably seemed a good idea at the time, but letting a loony Liverpool posse loose over a weekend in Paris, and placing everyone in the same hotel, was always going to be a recipe for madness and mayhem, with music an optional extra.It was like being on holiday with a bunch of cranked-up randy schoolkids with absolutely no excesses spared” Author Scottie was, and is, a regular football fan... who thought the 80s nurtured a shared, obsessive yearning to remain one step ahead of the terrace fashion curve. And every priceless priceless Lacoste, Fila and Armani designer clobber is now recalled fondly as a 30-yard cup final screamer. in the mid a ft ernoon sun getting some fresh air. Th e fi rst couple of glasses had gone straight to his head. We did hope he wasn’t too hot as his string vest could soon be Twenty or so found a hostel just around the corner, in a dimly lit street that tended to see most of its action in the twilight hours. The kind of hostel that you could smell downwind, a few hundred yards before you arrived at its unlit and distinctly worrying doorway. Not the sort of place that could accurately be described as being in any way pleasant. The kind of place, in fact, you’d recommend instantly to someone you don’t care much for. Somewhere to dump bags and nothing more. The ball, then, was firmly in the court of the recently signed three-piece power pop machine that was Top. This fine trio featured the much-missed Alan Wills, later founder of Deltasonic, on drums, PaulCavanagh, now with Mike Badger’s Shady Trio, on vocals and guitar, together with Wills‘ fellow Deltasonichoncho Joe Fearonon bass. Tophad been lauded and courted by just about every label in the country before finally signing to Island.If you wish to return any unwanted goods UK customers must return them within 10 working days from the day you receive them, with overseas customers having 14 days to return them. Please include a copy of the invoice in with your items so we know who they have come from. The returning goods should be posted via a recorded delivery with the buyer retaining any receipts in case the parcel should become lost in transit. Possibly the NME‘s man on the ground had been a little too ‘on the ground’ that weekend too, his judgementseemingly somewhatflawed. Perhaps he was right. Thankfully, we’ll never know. Housed in what was once a 1930s cabaret, Le Don Juan ,the hotel retains the charm, and the spirit of those heady days with a quiet dignity. History hangs heavy in these streets. Streets where Picasso, Lautrec, Monet, Dali, Mondrianand Van Goghlived, worked and sought their inspiration. And in the dark hours, the streets ran green with Absinthe. Hedonism was king. Friday night saw scally rappers Eat My Dog , performing for the very last time, and I can say with complete confidence (and without offending the band in the least) that they will not be missed.”

My favourite gear from the 80's was both Fila and Sergio. I think the fact they were Italian tennis gear made them exotic. Fila BJ was the holy grail, Terrinda and the Sergio Dallas in light blue and cream was of another planet. I also liked some of the Fila colours from 83/84 when they got a bit nutty with colours, although I think I'd rather shoot myself than wear some of that gear now - but I still have a Terrinda in dark blue (worn by Charlie in the business) a Sergio Dallas and red Fila wham top (white stripes on left arm) in my wardrobe! Usually we do not allow this due to resources, but if we have the time to we'll accommodate customers as best we can.In the Casual scene music was less important than football. And, as with the Perry Boys, musical tastes could be varied. In Liverpool, however, The Farm became associated with the Casual’s visual style, while the band’s front-man − Peter Hooton − co-founded The End, a local football fanzine that chronicled the vagaries of Casual fashion. Shades of Casual style and attitude also surfaced among the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and other bands associated with the ‘Madchester’ music scene that developed during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The closest Outlet Mall to Manhatten is Woodbury Common and it was here that besides a Hilfiger store there was also a Lacoste store. Lacoste would become massive in Liverpool over the next 10 years and would eventually open its largest independent UK store adjoining Wade Smith in the city centre. Wade Smith would sell that much Lacoste over the years that the president and owner of the brand Monsieur Lemaire came for the opening of its new store and stated “Liverpool’s a bit like the Lacoste capital of the world and shows no sign of waning.” It could be said that he should have thanked the entrepreneurs who made these trips to New York for starting a trend. But it’s more than that. It’s a quality thing too. It’s about fidelity. Listen carefully, here comes the science...!