Eton Rifles
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Artist:
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The Jam
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Genre:
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New Wave
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Decade:
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1970's
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Title:
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Eton Rifles
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Author:
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martin
beattie
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What goes around comes around!Eton Rifles reminds me of a particular time in my life when clothes or fashion started becoming more important than just enjoying ourselves. We’d just come out of the punk era when we were all wearing anything… no famous brands, just clothes that fitted. I loved my mohair jumper (god it was itchy though!) knitted by my mum, drain-pipe jeans (taken in by my mum) and my prize possession a pair of winkle pickers that my dad had told me where to buy them from, an old Beatles shop in Liverpool (cant remember the name now). They only had a size seven and I was a size eight, but they were mine as soon as I laid eyes on them; they were something special! They could have been a size five for all I cared, I would of amputated my toes to get them on! They were a highly polished black ankle boot with elasticated sides in the shape of a ‘U’, a small heal and stitching that ran right down the centre of the boot finishing at the point, you could literally pick your nose with that point. As a little footnote to my mohair jumper and winkle picker's, it was a time when our parents had that life changing choice to make; VHS or Betamamx. We plumbed for a VHS (good choice), the first film I ever watched was with the whole street in our house was … ‘The Warriors’… and we thought we were hard! The punk era was being softened by the new wave era and for no explicable reason we started buying ‘makes’ of clothes; Addidas Samba, Lois jeans, shoes that were really just slippers with a sole; called Polyvelts. Anyone remember POD shoes? Strangely enough they had POD written on the heel in it’s own little panel. They became the absolute uber fashion statement due to The Jam and Eton Rifles and POD shoes quickly became Jam shoes; they were black shoes with a white panel on the top. These were quickly followed by two-tone shirts which heralded the start of ‘mod’ … I think I’ll stop there, or this will become the longest musicbrick in history. Lol Pod, two tone shirts, Lois jeans and jam shoes equals Eton Rifles. Trust me on this!! In the very near future, Prada will bring out a mohair jumper that will cost 400 pound, but I’ll tell you now, my mum can knit one for you for 25 quid!!
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