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Punk Safety Pins

Posted by Km on January 11, 2021, 10:32 am

Punk Safety Pins
Someone I know said he went to London in about 1973 with other people to meet Malcolm Mclaren for some reason I cant remember, anyway he had a Teddy Boy jacket on with safety pins in it to hide holes, being poor, He said Mclaren thought it looked interesting and might use it for his clothes, so there you go a lad from Hebburn invented a major part of the punk look, not Johnny Rotten

Re: Punk Safety Pins

Posted by Joseph on January 11, 2021, 11:43 am, in reply to "Punk Safety Pins"

Wonder who that was, another famous Hebburn man.

Re: Punk Safety Pins

Posted by AJG on January 11, 2021, 2:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Punk Safety Pins"

Interesting. I was just reading the other day about Ian Dury (of the Blockheads fame) and that article mentioned that he also wore safety pins in the lapel of his jacket before punk rock made it popular. He was much older than most of the other people in the 1977 punk boom. Anyway, Malcolm McLaren had a knack for spotting those sorts of things that might catch on, so it’s ver possible that the safety pin thing came from a few different people including your friend!

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