That's peak 2007 hair on the bottom right.Silent Majority wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 12:18pmI got a green one from the stall there in 2007. The guy told me it was an ex-Irish one, but I was wearing a shamrock necklace at the time so in retrospect I think he saw me coming.Marky Dread wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 11:07amVery popular at the time. Each year I would go to the Reading Rock Festival I would go to the Army surplus store and buy a cheap shirt. Cheapest ones were the vests and the German plain green army shirt with the black, red and yellow tag on the arm.JohnS wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 9:50amPennie Smith's book has a pic of Mick wearing one of them too. I'm surprised the Clash front men all stooped to wearing such commonplace clobber! (although I never saw them on sale in the army surplus stores I knew)Marky Dread wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 3:34amYep but it came attached to the vest. Those vests used to cost around £3 back in the day. Army surplus stores were full of boxes of them. Nice and cheap clothing for ye olde punk rockers etc.BR16ADE_R055E wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 1:49am
It’s a Bundeswehr patch. The one I have:
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I'm wearing it in this, which, believe it or not, was not an audition for the Inbetweenwers
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Video Clips of The Clash 1980 by Don Letts
Re: Video Clips of The Clash 1980 by Don Letts
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Re: Video Clips of The Clash 1980 by Don Letts
Definitely.matedog wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 12:36pmThat's peak 2007 hair on the bottom right.Silent Majority wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 12:18pmI got a green one from the stall there in 2007. The guy told me it was an ex-Irish one, but I was wearing a shamrock necklace at the time so in retrospect I think he saw me coming.Marky Dread wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 11:07amVery popular at the time. Each year I would go to the Reading Rock Festival I would go to the Army surplus store and buy a cheap shirt. Cheapest ones were the vests and the German plain green army shirt with the black, red and yellow tag on the arm.JohnS wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 9:50amPennie Smith's book has a pic of Mick wearing one of them too. I'm surprised the Clash front men all stooped to wearing such commonplace clobber! (although I never saw them on sale in the army surplus stores I knew)Marky Dread wrote: ↑23 Apr 2021, 3:34am
Yep but it came attached to the vest. Those vests used to cost around £3 back in the day. Army surplus stores were full of boxes of them. Nice and cheap clothing for ye olde punk rockers etc.
I'm wearing it in this, which, believe it or not, was not an audition for the Inbetweenwers
1929448_30131990276_8973_n.jpg