Just tried to ring you as it 'appens!

Jim

I used to have the smoothie look for some time, it started about ten years ago. Usually I wore the more subtle choices but sometimes the loud ones, some of the clothes nowadays seem ridiculous, LOL. The loud ones I wore for soul nights . By the way, the first time I noticed a d-ring grosgrain belt, it was worn by a smoothie. Later I was surprised that it was also an Ivy item.

My all-time favourite Ivy items are probably heavy brogues, button-downs and Harringtons, very suedehead/smoothie.

GENTS now meeting up in New Year as Alex can not make it in Sept.
Lets keep in touch via PM , to arrange times and places.
Any suggestions on meet point, boozers, resturants, or tie in with a night out.
PMs if interested.

I was going to get back to this topic as for the different styles existing within Mod mentioned by an interviewee in "The Soul Stylists". Apparently that person was Terry Wheeler. He mentions the influence re-developing Peanut/Skinhead style came from West London and he thought that basically Skinheads were Mods. "Mods had different styles. Regency style, this style, that style. This was just another style. Right form the beginning, it was all American clothes, trying to look like Yanks."

So, Smoothie was effectively a continuation of that same idea. Dempsey has lived it....

I'd like to use a pic of EC wearing that outfit for the "London Ivy" thing, an off stage one preferably. Chris has posted some good stuff before, groupshots of The Yardbirds  and the Stones. I'll have to select a Yardbirds one I think as well as one of Charlie ( Watts ). Still have to order Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham too.
The visuals are important after all, they make any piece on style and clothing so much stronger. The above one speaks volumes anyway IMO....

funny enough, yesterday i watched a document on cream (actually of the making of disraeli gears album), rather uninteresting except for the fact tha it also had photos + live footage of the band members from pre-cream era. there was a rather cool colour clip of eric clapton playing with exatly the above gear on, with the g9 buttond done though. even ginger baker looked rather sharp (not scruffy far out hippy at all, all suited and booted) on an early photo with (probably) graham bond organization.

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