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This is the story of a life's obsession. From ben Sherman shirts to boxtop loafers, from bondage trousers to Comme des Garcons, the author has been there, bought it and worn it. It's about why you'd rather not go out at all than go out in the wrong sort of brogues, and why you just had to have a Budgie Jacket to cut it in the playground in 1970. It is also touching, the passionate social history of London street fashion; a fond memoir of working-class lads in tumultuous times and leary schmutter. As the lead writer for hip style bible The Face, He defined what was cool in the mid-eighties for a generation of British teenagers. From mod to punk there's barely a look he didn't dabble in over the years. This witty and often moving sartorial memoir is a love letter to London street fashion, from mods and suedeheads via punk and New Romantic to Comme des Garcon devotees. This is as much a coming of age story about grammar schoolboy the author' own journey from a council estate in Burnt Oak to the student at the London School of Economics - the first in his family to attend university - to hip young man about town, boyfriend of chart diva Sade and voice of a generation, as it is about the clothes he wore. It will enthrall the legions of listeners to his popular daily slot on BBC London, as it will the baby boomers who grew up in London during the 70s and 80s

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