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My docs in my avatar were from a charidee shop in Redditch a good few years ago now - 20 shitters and easily my most favourite pair of shoes.

I picked up a Plectrum by Ben Sherman chore jacket a few weeks from a shop in Cradley Heath for 3 ploppers.  I've barely taken it off since - I look totes amaze in it.  Obvs.

I bought a plectrum by Ben sherman winter coat a couple of years back. Warmest coat I've ever had. Not from a charidee shop though... but it was a tk maxx special.. 60 quid  think

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3 pristine Charles Tyrwhitt white shirts.  Very nice thick cotton.  Not a single.mark on them.  2.99 each.

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3 pristine Charles Tyrwhitt white shirts.  Very nice thick cotton.  Not a single.mark on them.  2.99 each.

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scootay wrote:
danpiesley wrote:

My docs in my avatar were from a charidee shop in Redditch a good few years ago now - 20 shitters and easily my most favourite pair of shoes.

I picked up a Plectrum by Ben Sherman chore jacket a few weeks from a shop in Cradley Heath for 3 ploppers.  I've barely taken it off since - I look totes amaze in it.  Obvs.

I bought a plectrum by Ben sherman winter coat a couple of years back. Warmest coat I've ever had. Not from a charidee shop though... but it was a tk maxx special.. 60 quid  think

I have a gunloader parka as well, in orange, it's a bit fruity.  Picked it up of another forum.

£40 or so and it is bomb proof - just not a popular brand I guess but really well made stuff.

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I still look around. Have done for years. Since the middle classes discovered charity shops there's not much to find any more.

Who's desperate enough to buy second hand undies, though?

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Seven for all Mankind jeans, unworn.
£190-£220 on their website.
£3.99 from a charity shop on Horsforth Town Street.
My size and everything.

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YEADONCHAP wrote:

Seven for all Mankind jeans, unworn.
£190-£220 on their website.
£3.99 from a charity shop on Horsforth Town Street.
My size and everything.

I salute you sir.

I'd offer you a beer, but I've only got six cans.

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Yesterday had a good haul.

1 x pair of OG doc shoes in black for £10 (very light wear)
1 x slimfit Fred Perry polo in xl £5
1 x pair of converse all star shoes in all black £4
1 x Ron Hill yellow spring shower proof running jacket £4
a load of books - 3 for a quid.  The secret History of the blitz being my favourite thus far.

I passed on a navy lined trespass walking jacket thing at £7.50 as well.

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Remember when Doc Marten shoes only had three eye holes or whatever you call them and none of that yellow stitching round the soles?

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I always have a look but I'm very picky.  The lad is in small mens now so I'm picking up some good shit for him.  Penguin, Lyle and Scott, Jack Wills stuff he seems to like.

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^ Yeah - I do well for my youngest.  The docs and the converse were for him.

three eye placket is what you mean.  I only ever wear 1461's - none of these p[oncy collab balls and Ilove a bit of yellow stitching.  I have yellow laces in my cherry reds now as well...

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Weller's been rocking the old monkey boots of late

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/gitpics/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/10010727/Paul_Weller_Mountford_Vicky_Pea-5.jpg

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fulmine wrote:

Weller's been rocking the old monkey boots of late

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/gitpics/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/10010727/Paul_Weller_Mountford_Vicky_Pea-5.jpg


My mate bought some recently.  Ox-blood, they look great.  Never liked them back in the day though funnily enough

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Been wanting a pair for ages, had a soft spot for them since I was a nipper

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Monkey boots were for female Skinheads weren't they?

three eye placket is what you mean.


I used to get them for school. $12 English and a week off with blisters.

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^^^^  Ha Ha Ha, yeah me an all.

I had monkey boots as a lad.  Black with yellow laces then I painted them with Humbrol paint.  A la Jackson Pollock.

Shop near me has the Ox Bloods.  Interested.

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I always remember my first house party, sitting in the corner, watching this mod with Steve Diggle hair and monkey boots bouncing up and down in the middle of the room to Funeral Pyre. I then threw up behind the curtain, big pernod and black stains all up the walls.

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danpiesley wrote:

^^^^  Ha Ha Ha, yeah me an all.

I had monkey boots as a lad.  Black with yellow laces then I painted them with Humbrol paint.  A la Jackson Pollock.

Shop near me has the Ox Bloods.  Interested.

I would have had a pair if I hadn't have got them Norman Walsh blind boy collection tin boots.

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ha ha ha - i'd like to see those!

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Cuts wrote:

Monkey boots were for female Skinheads weren't they?

three eye placket is what you mean.


I used to get them for school. $12 English and a week off with blisters.

Might explain some of my issues. Such as a penchant for tall, strapping women.

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just put the yellow laces in my ox blood docs. I like the monkey boots as well. Didn't they used to be dirt cheap, they are now quite dear?

I am just a common breed

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under the arches wrote:

just put the yellow laces in my ox blood docs. I like the monkey boots as well. Didn't they used to be dirt cheap, they are now quite dear?

£40 last time l looked.  Fuck loads less than Docs which I never really liked to be honest.

I'd offer you a beer, but I've only got six cans.

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Reggie Perrin wrote:
under the arches wrote:

just put the yellow laces in my ox blood docs. I like the monkey boots as well. Didn't they used to be dirt cheap, they are now quite dear?

£40 last time l looked.  Fuck loads less than Docs which I never really liked to be honest.

Are you full blown mad?

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danpiesley wrote:
Reggie Perrin wrote:
under the arches wrote:

just put the yellow laces in my ox blood docs. I like the monkey boots as well. Didn't they used to be dirt cheap, they are now quite dear?

£40 last time l looked.  Fuck loads less than Docs which I never really liked to be honest.

Are you full blown mad?

Without doubt but I never liked Docs.  Soles too thick.

I'd offer you a beer, but I've only got six cans.

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Just acquired a pair of brand new blue Adidas LA Trainers for £8.

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