Fred Perry

But, um, but like, it would just be like, um tape like a tapered peg leg like type type you know that that was definitely a style choice but um but um but you know like i but but see i came to it and i wore docs and i you know i i did the skinhead thing too um but after a while that uniform there were things going on at that time that were messed up and that uniform was just not something that really suited me so

well the fred perry shirt i feel like like people pouring over these images like the religious texts and trying to clean okay what what is part of this culture and like like you're saying like imbuing meaning where there is none in a lot of cases but just because like these images become so important especially at a time when there was like so little information outside of fanzine interviews or finding a copy of these records or maybe a bootleg, but there was, it was just like, there was just so little to kind of like fixate over that people would fixate.

So they know the exact type of champion sweatshirt you're wearing and giving it some sort of like greater importance.

I mean, I didn't even know, I didn't even know there were different kinds like, you know, um, the, uh, the Fred Perry.

So, so, but here's the thing.

So some records, uh, was the record store.

His girlfriend, had the store next door, which was a clothing store.

And she was, she was, she was from England, I believe.

Um, I would not wear this if you paid me money to do so.

[upbeat music] So this one here is an English brand, Fred Perry.

Got the extra extra large here.

The fit is okay.

I can tell I'm sweating more in it than in other polo shirts, and it, it feels like, you know, every time I move, the polo gives me some feedback on the contrary.

So you're very aware that you're wearing this polo shirt, and so I don't like that feeling.

I like the little detail on the edge, unlike the Fred Perry, which it looks similar to.

There's different texture in the black than in the other part of the rib, so I think that's kinda cool.

Sorry, Kieran, I didn't mean to shout.

That's you, you s- I startled you a bit by saying hello, and you're, and you suddenly started dancing like a mod to go with that lovely Fred Perry you've got on.

It's very nice.

Thank you very much.

It's just wrong.

Of course it's...

Well, see, you're a, you're a taller man and you're more slender, so you can get away with the, the proper buttoned up Fred Perry.

Uh, other s- sports casual mod shirts are available.

So like I got those two at the underground record store and I just absorbed it all.

Went to thrift stores, got the suits, got the there was actually a Fred Perry outlet in Baltimore randomly.

Oh, my God.

And this was like early late 80s, early 90s.

Yeah.

Because

they had the Fred Perry logo on it.

Exactly.

Ya viene para acá.

Hoy se puso sus botas y su polo Fred Perry.

No la dejó de mirar.

Bailando en la pista se ve muy bien.

... uh, spikes, you know, in their hair or, or that kind of thing.

They just have, like, crisp Fred Perry shirts and, uh-

Yeah, I wonder, like-

Maybe one, a bone in their nose.

Yep.

Fred Perry.

They're good co- cotton.

And every time I go for dinner there's always a little oil stain or a pasta stain, uh, maybe tomato or oil, right exactly where my tummy is and, you know.

And that's, that s- might sound a bit cheesy, but it's fucking true.

No, I mean, even when you, mate, you go back to the who's your, who's your market, I always find that weird when- Especially journalists ask certain things like, 'cause like, 'cause you're talking about going, you've got kids in, you've got people, and so, y- nobody asks Fred Perry who his market is.

Yeah.

And you've got young kids chatting about with Fred Perry polo shirts, and you get guys in their 70s carrying about a Fred Perry.

But nobody would say to him, "Who's your market?" Market is somebody who wants to buy your thing.

That's it.

Yeah.

What's the brand? Fred Perry.

What

do you think?

Why do you even ask the question? I'm not a

fan of Fred Perry's clothing.

I don't know why.

Well, it's not your style.