Nostalgia

My mother and father grew up in a time when culture defined your identity. By that I mean you belonged to a particular group or scene which decided everything from your sense of style to your view of life. Yes, we had 90s kids and the emo rage of the early 00s, but can we honestly say that we were part of a time when girls and boys both put every effort into defining their identity, and not just following what everyone else was wearing (yes, I know obviously this was happening then but I mean in a sense of when one person wears the Topshop "Geek" top with high waisted shorts and now every teenage girl thinks this is the ultimate outfit...)

I'm sure many people would love to have a debate with me about this. I don't just mean that we don't have certain trends, of course we do, but I mean we never become a trend- if that makes sense. 

During the 80s, you had the mod revival, the rockers, the punks... which were not only trends but lifestyles. My father was a member of a band called the Peruvian Hipsters in the 80s and always shares his stories of how they used to play around the South Wales Valleys, fitting the whole band and my mother and her friends into a van, along with all the band gear. 

He talked about how they were the  only other band, apart from the Sex Pistols, who were banned from a pub in Caerphilly. How they appeared on the 80s BBC music programme "Juice" and how they headlined a local festival, whereby half way through, kids climbed under the stage and unplugged the power... 

Before he joined the band, he was a young mod. Yes, he owned a fishtail parker and a scooter with a huge number of mirrors. He wore skinny trousers and winklepickers. He basically dressed how I dress now... 

I can even remember one time when I bought black and white pinstripe skinny jeans and my father asked where he could get some... 

I wish we had this nowadays. Yes, we have our own generation of fashion and trends which I regularly fall in love with but we haven't got groups of people who are into certain fashion lifestyles anymore, apart from the excessive gothic culture or emo. 


Why can't we have the mods? I could totally pull that off...

My dad is the basist with the red guitar...

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