Looking Sharp

If you are interested in why us guys wear the clothes we do, and how these fashions originated then find a moment to watch:- British Style Genius: Loud and Proud – The Street Look. It’s surprisingly compulsive viewing and a brilliant insight into sixties culture. Full of old footage it’s often very funny. I had no idea the original skin heads took the look from the American Astronauts of the late sixties.

Meet the original Teds, who adopted the flamboyant Edwardian-style suits favoured by post-war Guards officers, while the original Mods show how they patched together influences from American jazz, French arthouse cinema and Italian cafe culture to create a sharper look. There’s a look at the hidden subtleties behind the 1970s skinhead style, with its militaristic, boots-meets-Ben Sherman look, and we see how the European sportswear-influenced 1980s street style took its inspiration from the tennis courts and sowed the seeds of a label obsession that still dominates the street look today.

BBC iplayer (click on the link to view the documentary)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fh77w/