#28

Dickies jeans were big with skater/mosher types when I was a teen. Didn’t even know it was a workwear brand, thought it was a skate thing.

#29

hahaha. I went there once, before a flight to Mallorca. had a few hours to waste. ended up spending a couple hundred quid on some shirts, out of pure boredom

my mate and me spent the whole holiday saying ‘natterjacks’ in silly voices

it was a shit holiday

#30

I seem to remember Natterjacks had two shops? One for skaters, one was more ‘grown up’?

#32

Yeah, that’s right. Just looked and at least one still exists: ndependent boutique for skate-influenced men’s fashion, trainers, accessories, books and DVDs.

#33

Oh man, they still do them

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£110!

#34

friend of mine used to work in Legends on that road too. Him and his workmates would throw stock they liked out of the back window into a skip and then nick off with it after the shop closed.

#35

That sounds familiar too. I used to reckon that little corner of Kingston had the best shops in Britain.

#36

Go to Alice Holt Forest (or similar Forestry-Commission-Park-With-Expensive-Car-Park-And-Go-Ape) and you’re guaranteed to see a middle manager in his early 40s pushing a buggy and wearing one of these.

#37

I’ve hit up the Gruffalo trail at Alice Holt.

#38

My sister lives in Ash and so we met her and her family there in the summer. I think we went round the Gruffalo trail too!

But I digress.

#39

It’s got a good playground but the parking is outrageous (when I was wearing Carhartt I wouldn’t have given a shit about this).

#40

Anyone use to have a Duffer hoody back in the 90’s?

#41

I feel Stussy is the same but it could be different?

#42

It’s no Moors Valley Country Park tbh.

#43

I have a pair of Dickies site boots. I’d never come across them as a skater thing.

#44

Not the boots, the jeans.

#45

Yeah they were, pal. I used to have a red t-shirt with Dickies in big white letters across the front. Maybe you are cooler than you realised.

#46

Kind of weird how Carhartt come in and out of fashion with different groups. I first heard of it in the late 90s/early00s when it was up there with Subaru as being identified with lesbian lifestyle.

#47

Ah yeah, I do remember those t-shirts. A couple of the tweenage skaters wore them when we were teenagers.

#48

you’re about the same age as me, bud. where was I when caarharrt and dickies were big? when were they big?