I bought a ben sherman shirt...

[Orang Utan]

Ben Shermans have far more of an association with skinheads/suedeheads than any other fashion sub-culture surely?!

exactly

 

[Orang Utan]

after reading this thread, not for the first time am i glad i take no notice of labels if it makes you stereotype people as 'thugs' who just happen to wear a certain shirt.

you're a total snob Orang, just admit it for once and for all.

i've never denied it

 

[cybertect]

Ben Shermans have far more of an association with skinheads/suedeheads than any other fashion sub-culture surely?!

I own quite a few Ben Sherman shirts and some people might think I was a bit of a hippy otherwise.

 

[Fedayn]

exactly

So skinheads are stella drinking thugs?

 

[Orang Utan]

So skinheads are thugs?

they were where i grew up

 

[Fedayn]

they were where i grew up

Leeds? Rather a reputation for being boneheads and teenage twats rather than genuine trad skins.

 

[Orang Utan]

yes, i'm aware of that

 

[London_Calling]

I'd like to say you can't wear a Ben Sherman without braces but actually I do now. It comes to us all . . .,

Just make sure no one looks at your bird funny.

OI OI !

 

[Northern Uproar]

A very good shirt back in the day - well cut and stylish..............until britpop exploded and it was championed by oasis and co and it became the standard going out shirt in the mid 90's and slowly became part of the shinny shoe/shirt brigade that would large it in town on a saturday night.....as pointed out above drinking shed loads of stella and scrapping

probably 'cool' again now tho

 

[Maurice Picarda]

probably 'cool' again now tho

I have three, so that seems unlikely.

 

[London_Calling]

Which decade and century did you buy them in?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Which decade and century did you buy them in?

Difficult question. It was officially towards the end of 2008, but it was in a little shop in Enfield where it was probably still around 1996.

 

[London_Calling]

I have one from somewhere around the late 80s-early 90s. I'll need to spend three years on an NHS ward to get close to fitting it again though.

OI !

 

[Voley]

I've got one for work. It's alright. Slightly different from yer usual M&S blokes work shirt stuff.

I don't feel the need for therapy because of this.

 

[futuretense]

"Skinhead skinhead, looking for a fight!"

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Pic?

Thread fail.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Personally, I don't associate Ben Sherman shirts with skinheads, I think of it more of a mod thing. But then I vaguely recall there was a shop on Cross Street in Manchester that was a shrine to all things mod. Mod is something I was more familiar with than skinhead stuff as a teenager.

I just Googled Ben Sherman +mod and apparently it was a skinhead thing in the early 70s but associated with mod by a 1979 revival.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sherman
http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_style/60s/ben_sherman.php
http://www.hipsterama.com/2009/03/ben-sherman-the-god-of-mod/

 

[subversplat]

Ben Shermans have far more of an association with skinheads/suedeheads than any other fashion sub-culture surely?!

Ben Shermans and Harrington jackets are de rigeur on the Saturday night, pint and a fight circuit in small towns across the nation

It's just one of those things that True Skins will have to put up with (or go and bash the heads of said street brawlers until they stop wearing the same clothes)

That being said though, they're just shirts - I owned a Ben Sherman blue and red ginghamy check design shirt until I sort of Incredible Hulked out of it after putting on a bit of shoulder muscle (it was very tight on me beforehand....)

 

[cybertect]

I'm wearing precisely this Ben Sherman shirt as I post this (I'm the one with the bass on the right)

 

[Swearing Nonna]

does this mean i will start drinking bottled stella and offering people outside for a fight?

I have a ben sherman shirt and you've just described my saturday nights, wanna make something of it?!

 

[foo]

yeh, but you're a commoner/thug anyway unix so they'd probably expect it of you....

 

[Orang Utan]

it was this shirt FYI:
http://www.zappos.com/n/p/p/7513131/c/98455.html

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Ben Shermans have far more of an association with skinheads/suedeheads than any other fashion sub-culture surely?!

Sadly, many of our beloved fashion icons are being robbed by scummy little fag ash fucks out for nothing but the lash, a bash and some booze soaked gash.

I'm ashamed to see the mighty harrington jacket upon the backs of the squirty little tykes...

...they'll have our Levi's next as soon as they grow out of their track suit bottoms.

 

[foo]

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

does this mean i will start drinking bottled stella and offering people outside for a fight?

No. It doesn't. But you might make people a bit bog-eyed and give them a headache if you were videoed while wearing it.

Oh! I clicked on the photo and got the pop-up multi-view.

If you look long enough at view 6,, it's like a magic eye picture... I'm sure I saw a mermaid and a dolphin and a unicorn...

 

[Fedayn]

Sadly, many of our beloved fashion icons are being robbed by scummy little fag ash fucks out for nothing but the lash, a bash and some booze soaked gash.

I'm ashamed to see the mighty harrington jacket upon the backs of the squirty little tykes...

...they'll have our Levi's next as soon as they grow out of their track suit bottoms.

A lad I know-a skinhead-has a shop and is selling Harringtons day and daily to various little scrotes.

 

[Rainingstairs]

does this mean i will start drinking bottled stella and offering people outside for a fight?

only if you pop the collar.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

A lad I know-a skinhead-has a shop and is selling Harringtons day and daily to various little scrotes.

..and what do they do...go and lean against things and scuff 'em all up