Back-to-School disasters

Edward said:

The Hitler t-shirt probably wasn't my finest hour aesthetically, though the historical joke is still sound (and appropriately mocking of the nasty man) - it was done on the style of a band tour t-shirt, with 'European Tour 1939-45' on it. England and Russian stamped over 'cancelled'. Wore it on a school uniform day once and my history teacher thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.

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shadowrider said:

Hope you're not the guy who got kicked out of the REM concert!

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Edward said:

No, what was that? This was in Ireland in 1989.... I don't think I'd heard of REM until about 1994.

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shadowrider said:

Apparently, in 1986, a person attending a REM concert wearing the same Adolf Hitler European Tour t-shirt was asked to leave by Michael Stipe.
Crazy, I know!

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Edward said:

I was never much on mainstream fashion; around about the time I actually started to care much about what I wore, I rejected fashion norms in favour of subculture aesthetics. The Metal Years were first - impossibly tight jeans, t-shirts the size of duvet covers, army surplus, eventually my first leather jacket, which all evolved into a punk rock and grunge sort of look (not that we called it grunge until the media invented that term in 1991, at which point we'd been wearing it for three years or so). My first (black wool) fedora (still got it somewhere!) filtered into that mix somehow. Several pairs of bondage trousers came and went. I still have my licensed repop Seditionaries 'Only Anarchists are Pretty' shirts.

I think the only things I really regret, looking back, were the cowboy boots, cool as they were at the time - all the big metal guys wore tham, but of our set I was the only one that had a pair. They later stood in for Riff Raff's Beatles boots for part of my early Rocky Horror shadow casting days. Outside of a costume, wouldn't be seen dead in them now. And the bikelock chain I wore round my ankle a few times. With the combination lock.

I do have a vague recollection of being bought a pair of silver-grey slacks for a specific occasion in Church when I was about fourteen and liking them well enough until I discovered my mother had bought my brother a pair exactly the same. I remember being very, very angry any time that we were bought something the same, and gonig out of my way to avoid wearing them on the same occasions. No fear of that nowadays: I think he owns one suit, two ties, and mutliple pairs of jeans and hoodies. I like clothes; to him they're warmth and arrest-prevention.

The Hitler t-shirt probably wasn't my finest hour aesthetically, though the historical joke is still sound (and appropriately mocking of the nasty man) - it was done on the style of a band tour t-shirt, with 'European Tour 1939-45' on it. England and Russian stamped over 'cancelled'. Wore it on a school uniform day once and my history teacher thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.

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Edward said:

I was never much on mainstream fashion; around about the time I actually started to care much about what I wore, I rejected fashion norms in favour of subculture aesthetics. The Metal Years were first - impossibly tight jeans, t-shirts the size of duvet covers, army surplus, eventually my first leather jacket, which all evolved into a punk rock and grunge sort of look (not that we called it grunge until the media invented that term in 1991, at which point we'd been wearing it for three years or so)...

...I think the only things I really regret, looking back, were the cowboy boots, cool as they were at the time - all the big metal guys wore tham, but of our set I was the only one that had a pair...

...The Hitler t-shirt probably wasn't my finest hour aesthetically, though the historical joke is still sound (and appropriately mocking of the nasty man) - it was done on the style of a band tour t-shirt, with 'European Tour 1939-45' on it. England and Russian stamped over 'cancelled'. Wore it on a school uniform day once and my history teacher thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.

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Dreamofgilgamesh said:

Somewhere around 1970 for some inexplicable reason I thought it would be a good idea to wear a floral patterned shirt paired with a pair of red crushed velvet loon trousers, mercifully no pictures exist but the memory lingers brrrrrr.

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