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Retrofashions
For now particular reason. Just made me burst.
I remember my 14 year-old niece. She was wearing a t-shirt that said “The Beatles” as everyone in her school wore them.
I asked her if she ever listened to “The Beatles” and she replied “Who?” and I said “The Beatles, you know like your T-Shirt says.” and then she said “What kind of music do they play? Are they rappers or techno or heavy metal?” I said “No, they were Rock and Roll, classic Rock and Roll, like from the 1960’s.” and she said “What kind of songs did they play?” and I said “Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, A Hard Day’s Night, and a few others.” she said “They sound silly, are they still alive?” I said “No, two of them are dead.” and she said “Then how do they play their music, did they replace the two dead guys yet?” I said “They had like over 200 songs and they are trying to digitze them into new formats.” and she said “How can they digitize them when half the band is dead?” and I asked “How could you wear a Beatles logo T-shirt and not know who they are?” and she said “It is a fashion trend at our school, everyone is wearing them because our grandparents used to wear them. You know, Hippies and stuff like that. Retrofashion is so in now.”
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
it’s like european children wearing a Kufiya (or: Kefije / Shemag / Pali /…), because it’s “in”. but most of them don’t know about its origins or political meanings.
January 10th, 2009 at 00:05or all this camouflage clothings…
fashion sucks.
to be more precise:
January 10th, 2009 at 00:07fashion industry sucks.
i sometimes wear a deep purple t-shirt.
anyone know them?
🙂
actually, as a teen i wanted to own a very cool t-shirt that used to hang in the ‘our price’ window in chester. they never had my size and it seemed very expensive so i never did get it.
a black shirt with the gillan logo on front in red, i guess promoting the double trouble album.
class.
January 10th, 2009 at 08:12To quote Alice Cooper:”Flush the fashion”!!!
This truly pisses me off…..Unless you´re knowledgeable or a fan of said group,don´t wear the T-shirt! It´s an insult to real fans and musiclovers of classic rock acts!I wouldn´t be caught dead in a Madonna,Britney or Tupac t-shirt….why?? Beacuse I´m not a fan and detest their music!! I don´t care if it´s in or not….If they´re crap,they´re crap!!
Bimbos in heat should be severly punished for such outrageous behaviour……line up girls,come to papa!!
January 10th, 2009 at 10:08I don´t know, this story seems highly unlikely and is most possibly fabricated, so I wouldn´t worry really.
There is lots of Beatles Fans that are in their 20 or younger now, I mean serious fans. And almost everyone even remotely into more than just one genre of music lists them as their favourites. Of all young people I know there is only two kinds. Those you don´t care for the Beatles or those who love them to death. There is hardly a second group that has split up almost 40 years ago that enjoys such a lasting popularity and still wins new fans with every comming generation.
That girl, if it really exist is probably the laughing stock at the school she goes to.
January 10th, 2009 at 12:35I am looking from years for a big photo of Gillan from the bootleg live in london with Black Sabbath but I can only find little pictures of that cover…Fashion or not who cares?
January 10th, 2009 at 14:05To care or not to care……
In 1990 I tried to get in front , after rushing into a stadium in Utrecht for the Monsters of Rock festival with amongst others Whitesnake and Aerosmith, of the stage.
Whitesnake was very fashionable and some girls were standing were I wanted to go.
They never heard of SLIDE IT IN, Come and get it, only the hits.
Being there for the wrong reasons…..
January 10th, 2009 at 17:35The way I see it, is that some kids are gonna discover bands that way. It actually happened to a friend of mine whose kid bought “Beatles” buttons, because he liked the “yellow submarine” designs, then asked his father to see the movie, and is now listening to the cd’s all the time…That kid is 5. So I think it’s not all bad.
January 11th, 2009 at 09:19When I was 14 I’d where any T-shirt that annoyed old farts. The trouble is I’m an old fart myself now. The fashion industry/media completely control the minds of young people who buy and wear anything they are told is trendy. The corporate conspiracy has won and the days when I was young and my entire ensemble cost about £5 have long gone. Come to think of it, being an old fart aint so bad.
January 11th, 2009 at 14:44‘Flush the Fashion’…..
Cheers
January 11th, 2009 at 19:52I have a batch of ‘George Formby’ T-Shirts…..
Anyone?…………
January 12th, 2009 at 09:28Kuifje?
January 12th, 2009 at 09:48I remember last year, there was a trend among the intellectually impaired teenaged fashion slaves to wear t-shirts featuring the likeness of Che Guevara – the Communist revolutionary. None of them knew who he was or what he stood for. The image was just a cool “fashion trend.”
So, it’s possible this “Beatles” girl exists. Though the line of questioning the poster recalls is weird. For song examples, he offers “Yellow Submarine” and “Hards Day Night” instead of more accessbile songs like “Let it Be,” “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” or “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” He never explains tto her hat the Beatles are the most famous R&R band in the world and that without them, rock music wouldn’t be what it is today. He never mentions Paul McCartney or John Lennon — iconic names that may have clicked with the young girl.
If it had been me, I would have said, “Come with me,” and dragged into the music room and put on some Beatles and not let her out until she knew all the words to at least 10 songs.
Then I would let her wear the shirt.
January 12th, 2009 at 19:57Bobby D
January 12th, 2009 at 20:27I would do the same for Deep purple
not for the Beatles, I don’t like them so much…
Michiel
kefiah
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2710/kefiahpz7.gif
I used it in the past because it was the easiest of a wool scarf, do not bite me on the skin and my neck was well covered under his coat …
is it fashion?
🙂
I think if I find it I roll out of the drawer..
January 13th, 2009 at 09:06Dont think Kuifje has anything to do with Kefiah
January 14th, 2009 at 15:38Well not with the image you showed us
I think its got something to do with the Palestinian case?
purplepriest1965
http://www.rucksackshop.com/en/prod/200005/Keffiyeh–Shemagh-(desert)
alternative names: Kufiya, Kafiya, Kefije, Kaffiyeh, Shmagh, Shemagh, Yashmag, Ghutra or Hatta
I met Gillan after a concert,in front of the little place he played,on the street,during the Naked Thunder Tour,he weared one of these Kuifje,of course his colour was purple…
I keep a photo with him on that day ..
ciao
January 14th, 2009 at 18:39There is lots of teenagers world wide who never heard about of Queen or Iron Maiden.What to say about Beatles and The Who?!!
January 14th, 2009 at 19:55Maybe I should avoid political issues but……
January 14th, 2009 at 21:26Do you imply Gillan endorsed the Palestinian case?
No,I don’t…
and me too I don’t like to speak about politic anymore,this world is going into the S++t more and more..
I can say surely that I read a lot of interviews with Gillan on muic-magazine and he is a a good man of great culture with social vision and great sensitivity to ethnic minorities.
I always thought of him looking at the pictures in DP’s biographyies .. he traveled a lot in his life for music ..
since the Gillan Band he was one of the first musicians (in later seventies) to discover places of Asia in which to play ..I think he has enjoyed many cultures in his life … and perhaps as many “beauties” ..
blessed him ..
January 15th, 2009 at 07:35Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber
January 15th, 2009 at 13:50Cryptical again, Rascal
Time is precious, to who are you referring exactly?
January 16th, 2009 at 16:33Kuifje is the dutch name for Tintin, you know the comic strip…
January 16th, 2009 at 18:39i would rather see the beatles shirt on a kid then low baggy pants on a punk.
January 16th, 2009 at 20:01Spot on, James Jay! Played DP to my son the other day(WDWTWA cd,
I think it was), and he started to cry….heh, well, after
calming him down and putting on some Thin Lizzy he nodded
his head & shaked a leg so all the hope’s not gone, eh 😉
January 16th, 2009 at 21:37Maybe people like me now should say WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE is one of my favourites and get lots of approval or……………..scorn?
I like THIN LIZZY as well, so…………pfoehhhhhhhhh
January 17th, 2009 at 17:47Maybe your analysis of sane minds does not completely fit the bill?
I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me
January 19th, 2009 at 08:44In some books Kuifje is wearing a kefiah.
January 31st, 2009 at 19:42