The Smiths And ’80s Indie Style - mojo4music.com

Published on September 19, 2013 04:00 PM

The Smiths And ’80s Indie Style - MOJO

The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, bowl cuts, pointy boots… 5 classic indie looks critiqued by A Scene In Between author Sam Knee.

By IAN HARRISON

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Sam Knee’s fashion analysis: “The Smiths look – which, obviously due to the band’s enormous appeal, was the most widespread indie style model – combined floaty, blousy shirts, Levi 501s and DM shoes… The indie aesthetic overall was subtly subversive if thought out correctly and practised with precision. There were certainly various multifarious strains all sharing a zest for escapism, romanticism and peaceful protest. It was in many ways about separating oneself and surviving outside of the garish mainstream and grim realities of Thatcher’s Britain via a poetic Left Bank-ish paisley haze. But achieving this without drawing too much overt attention.”

At the Moles Club, Bath, September 1983. By Martin Whitehead.

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