Album Covers With The Clothes Too Small

[JSngry]

[Chas]

The perils of unsanforized clothing...

[BFrank]

Shoulda gone to One Hour Martinizing (whatever THAT is!)

[Swinging Swede]

[bertrand]

I immediately thought of Lee Morgan. He always wore his pants that way - apparently it was the fashion.

Bertrand.

[JohnS]

I immediately thought of Lee Morgan. He always wore his pants that way - apparently it was the fashion.

Bertrand.

That's right, the Italian styling was the hip fashion of the day. I remember it well.

[BillF]

I immediately thought of Lee Morgan. He always wore his pants that way - apparently it was the fashion.

Bertrand.

That's right, the Italian styling was the hip fashion of the day. I remember it well.

Ah, yes! This was the look:

[brownie]

[mikeweil]

When I was a kid, people used to call this style of pants "Hochwasser" - high tide .... 

[Swinging Swede]

[Rooster_Ties]

When I was a kid, people used to call this style of pants "Hochwasser" - high tide .... 

Or "high-waters" - that's the term I heard most often.

[BillF]

When I was a kid, people used to call this style of pants "Hochwasser" - high tide .... 

Or "high-waters" - that's the term I heard most often.

"Half mast" is what I say.

[Rooster_Ties]

Have we also perhaps discovered the early origins of the dreaded "duckface"??

Edited April 24, 2011 by Rooster_Ties

[Matthew]

I immediately thought of Lee Morgan. He always wore his pants that way - apparently it was the fashion.

Bertrand.

That's right, the Italian styling was the hip fashion of the day. I remember it well.

Ah, yes! This was the look:

Wasn't that the "Mod" style also? So it went Italy>England>America?

[BillF]

I immediately thought of Lee Morgan. He always wore his pants that way - apparently it was the fashion.

Bertrand.

That's right, the Italian styling was the hip fashion of the day. I remember it well.

Ah, yes! This was the look:

Wasn't that the "Mod" style also? So it went Italy>England>America?

Well, here are Mods in England in the early sixties:

P.S. It's obviously the subject of heavy academic study nowadays!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_(subculture)

Edited April 24, 2011 by BillF

[brownie]

I remember British mods looked like those:

[BillF]

They look like skinheads to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead

I remember you had home-grown varieties, Brownie, les blousons noirs and les yé-yés:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blouson_noir

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%A9-y%C3%A9

[brownie]

I remember you had home-grown varieties, Brownie, les blousons noirs and les yé-yés:

Our blousons noirs did not wear their trousers short!