Can I promise to wear my bestest clothes EVER.....can I get some tickets......
Why don't I ever get lucky in the ballot???
Why don't I ever get lucky in the ballot???
Dress code for strictly audience.
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Originally Posted by Muggsy:
“They're not chartered accountants.
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“They're not chartered accountants.
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The Beatles and all the big 60s groups wore suits and ties and we fans copied them, we had suits made to measure at John Collier or Burtons and chose our material and all the details such as collars, buttons, pocket flaps or no flaps, vent back or no vent back, 16"bottoms or 18" bottoms, turn ups or no turn ups. Whatever the groups were wearing we wanted too.
Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley:
“I've no idea of course, but I'd imagine the audience has to queue for quite some time before the programme starts and possibly not under shelter?
If so, can't blame them for being casually dressed.
But the so called "celebrities" invited probably just swan in and don't have to queue, so no reason for them not to look presentable.”
“I've no idea of course, but I'd imagine the audience has to queue for quite some time before the programme starts and possibly not under shelter?
If so, can't blame them for being casually dressed.
But the so called "celebrities" invited probably just swan in and don't have to queue, so no reason for them not to look presentable.”
You are right, the audience have to queue for quite some time - I was there 2 hours before being allowed just into the BCC confines and I was 258th in the queue. There were some people who had been there 6 hours before! And yes, there's no cover.
However, there were no casually dressed people queuing. As has been said, the only people who dressed casually were celebs or those who knew people in the BBC.
As fro the flat cap, the dress code is "glamorous" - it might be that colour and style of his hat complimented an overall glamorous outfit? I don't know, I was only dressed in a suit.
Originally Posted by valkay:
“The Beatles and all the big 60s groups wore suits and ties and we fans copied them, we had suits made to measure at John Collier or Burtons and chose our material and all the details such as collars, buttons, pocket flaps or no flaps, vent back or no vent back, 16"bottoms or 18" bottoms, turn ups or no turn ups. Whatever the groups were wearing we wanted too.”
“The Beatles and all the big 60s groups wore suits and ties and we fans copied them, we had suits made to measure at John Collier or Burtons and chose our material and all the details such as collars, buttons, pocket flaps or no flaps, vent back or no vent back, 16"bottoms or 18" bottoms, turn ups or no turn ups. Whatever the groups were wearing we wanted too.”
For a very short time (about 1963-64) some groups wore suits. I think it was to make them a tad less threatening in a world very different to that of today.
Originally Posted by Muggsy:
“For a very short time (about 1963-64) some groups wore suits. I think it was to make them a tad less threatening in a world very different to that of today.”
“For a very short time (about 1963-64) some groups wore suits. I think it was to make them a tad less threatening in a world very different to that of today.
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I think it was more likely that many couldn't afford them until they began to be successful. Wearing a suit on stage signified your arrival, many young men still aspired to owning a suit in the late fifties early sixties,even though casual dress was jeans tee shirts and baggy pullovers. There was a Burtons, Hepworths and Fifty Shilling Tailors (pre-dated John Collier) on every high street. Pop groups were wearing suits since the fifties.
Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley:
“I think it was more likely that many couldn't afford them until they began to be successful. Wearing a suit on stage signified your arrival, many young men still aspired to owning a suit in the late fifties early sixties,even though casual dress was jeans tee shirts and baggy pullovers. There was a Burtons, Hepworths and Fifty Shilling Tailors (pre-dated John Collier) on every high street. Pop groups were wearing suits since the fifties.”
“I think it was more likely that many couldn't afford them until they began to be successful. Wearing a suit on stage signified your arrival, many young men still aspired to owning a suit in the late fifties early sixties,even though casual dress was jeans tee shirts and baggy pullovers. There was a Burtons, Hepworths and Fifty Shilling Tailors (pre-dated John Collier) on every high street. Pop groups were wearing suits since the fifties.”
Had The Beatles not arrived at the time they released Sgt Pepper?
Dunno, never took any interest in the Beatles, not my cup of tea.
I was well into Modern Jazz and Motown before then (with the suits). Most of the British popular groups of the late fifties early sixties were wearing suits.
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