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Buy this book on-line ELMS**, ROBERT: : the way we wore:A LIFE IN THREADS.** [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.PICADOR,2005. ISBN 0330420321.
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FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,author SIGNED (black ink signature) to foot of title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,colour photographic upper panel+ spine/backstrip,b/w photographic rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright,tight and clean also,with an accidental(?) dog-ear creasing to bottom corners of pp205-212 inclusive. Clean,black paper-covered bds with bright, crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine /backstrip and plain,maroon eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1-278pp [paginated], an introduction,17 chapters and an epilogue.
One day in 1965 the five-year-old Robert Elms fell in love with clothes.His brother had just returned to the family's Burnt Oak home in a new suit he'd picked up from a tailor in Kilburn.Otis Redding was playing in the front room.This, as his mum would say,was 'all the go',whatever that meant.
This,Elms realized,was what you grew up for.
Fast-forward seventeen years,through a slideshow of looks - mod,skinhead, suedehead,Bowie boy,punk - and Elms finds himself at the epicentre of hip eighties London.As lead writer for the new style bible,the Face,his pronouncements - on what to wear and what not to wear,what to listen to and how to achieve cool, dictated youth taste to the post-punk generation.In an era that saw sytle become a mainstream preoccupation,Robert Elms became,almost inadvertently,high priest of a new cult.
Was selvedge stitching really essential? (Yes.) Was the ripped-trouser look really a political statement?(Probably not.) Was Cowboy chic really chic at all? When the sartorial excess of youth fashion came to full fruition amid the pantomime outfits of the Blitz Club,Elms was in his element. And then it all changed.
This is the story of a life's obsession. From Ben Sherman shirts to boxtop loafers, from bondage trousers to Comme de Garcons, Elms has been there, bought it and worn it.It's about why you'd rather not go out at all than go out in the wrong sort of brogues, and why you just had to have a Budgie Jacket to cut it in the playground in 1970.It is ultimately a hilarious, passionate social history of London street fashion from the Teddy Boys and rude boys battling it out in the 50's Notting Hill of Elms's childhood until it all ended with the rise of Acid House.A fond memoir of working class lads in tumultuous times and leary schmutter.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn,but author SIGNED (black ink signature - without dedication) to foot of title-page,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,colour photographic upper wrap+spine/backstrip,b/w photographic
rear wrap with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,all four corners minimally rubbed/chipped.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/tanned,contents generally bright,tight and clean,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread example? Some minimal,minor spotting/foxing(?) to half-title+title and dedication pages and to the free endpapers at the rear.Clean,black paper-covered bds with bright,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,b/w headband and plain maroon eps.8vo,1-278pp (paginated),intro, 17 chapters and an epilogue.
One day in 1965 the five-year-old Robert Elms fell in love with clothes.His brother had just returned to the family's Burnt Oak
home in a new suit he'd picked up from a tailor in Kilburn.Otis Redding was playing in the front room.This,as his mum would say,was 'all the go',whatever that meant.
This,Elms realized,was what you grew up for.
Fast-forward seventeen years,through a slideshow of looks - mod,skinhead, suedehead,Bowie boy,punk - and Elms finds himself at the epicentre of hip eighties London.As lead writer for the new style bible,the Face,his pronouncements - on what
to wear and what not to wear,what to listen
to and how to achieve cool,dictated youth taste to the post-punk generation.In an era that saw sytle become a mainstream preoccupation,Robert Elms became,almost inadvertently,high priest of a new cult.Was
selvedge stitching really essential? (Yes.)
Was the ripped-trouser look really a political statement? (Probably not.) Was Cowboy chic really chic at all? When the sartorial excess of youth fashion came to full fruition amid the pantomime outfits of the Blitz Club,Elms was in his element.
And then it all changed.
This is the story of a life's obsession.
From Ben Sherman shirts to boxtop loafers, from bondage trousers to Comme de Garcons, Elms has been there,bought it and worn it.
It's about why you'd rather not go out at all than go out in the wrong sort of brogues,and why you just had to have a Budgie Jacket to cut it in the playground in 1970.It is ultimately a hilarious, passionate social history of London street fashion from the Teddy Boys and rude boys battling it out in the 50's Notting Hill of Elms's childhood until it all ended with
the rise of Acid House.A fond memoir of working class lads in tumultuous times and leary schmutter.
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