Field Day 2009

1 August 2009

Well I didn't actually go, so this isn't a review type thing, more of an associated observation: heading out through Bethnal Green and Mile End on the Central Line early on Saturday afternoon it could be clearly observed that most of the disembarking FD-ers were wearing plain shirts.

PLAIN SHIRTS.

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Could it mark the passing of the trend? Hopefully it might soon be possible, if the fancy strikes, to buy a shirt with checks on it without looking as if you are trying to buy membership of a certain club.

But how long will it take the rest of Them to realise that things have moved on?

Edit: I am informed that at Shitditch 1-2-3-4 the previous Saturday the same observation was made. The plain shirts were apparently teamed with leather jackets, supertight trousers and winklepickers, in a Modern Boy style.

Quite unbelievably, this tallies with something that Nicky Haslam (!) said on Desert Island Discs (!!) this very morning: his leather/tight/pointy outfit in an old photo was mentioned as an amusing demonstration of the cyclical nature of Fashion (although these days it is probably a meme, but I digress). I heard this and thought "Yeah, right, as if you know what The Kids are wearing!" but apparently he does too...