I assume that the hair style is meant to go along with the vaguely 30's mood of the photo shoot.  Heaven forbid that the "wet look" should ever actually come back!

Added later:  Of course it's mod (not 30's) -- that's what the article says, so that must be what was intended.  However, the popular image of "mod" here in the US was a much different style, very flamboyant, so I failed to make the connection.  I wish I'd just said "retro" in the first place!

Last edited by Carol the Dabbler (November 4, 2012 4:31 am)

besleybean wrote:

30s?  60s, I would have thought.

Gangster look. 20s, 30s, 40s.
The 60s brought us Beatles haircuts, afros, and long hair of all sorts.

besleybean wrote:

Surely these are MOD images?  60s.

Yeah, late 50s to mid-60s.

The mods started here in the early 60s as an opposite to the 'Rockers'. Although at times they wore flambouyant gear (shirts with ruffles were big) mostly they wore highly tailored suits, shirts, ties and had short hair, as distinct from 'Rockers' who had long hair and wore jeans and casual gear. Think early Beatles and you won't go far wrong. The Mods would also have large scooter rallies and the classic item of clothing then would have been a khaki parka coat. The other typically Mod symbol would be the bullseye. Quadrophrenia is a Mod movie (with Phil Davis- the cabbie in ASiP) and The Who. The Mod fashion continued into the 1970's 1980's and beyond. Girls wore tailored skirts, dresses and blouses. Mod fashion peaked in the mid to late 60s. Martin's porkpie hat is an archetypal Mod item. For more information than you will probably want to know:

www.modrevival.net

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_(subculture)
For this link you then need to scroll down until you see Mod (subculture) and then click.

www.themodgeneration.co.uk

Last edited by Davina (November 4, 2012 10:36 am)

They work on me.

Davina wrote:

The mods started here in the early 60s as an opposite to the 'Rockers'. Although at times they wore flambouyant gear (shirts with ruffles were big) mostly they wore highly tailored suits, shirts, ties and had short hair.... Martin's porkpie hat is an archetypal Mod item.

Thank you, Davina.  I shall now compound my display of ignorance --

What is that sort of chartreuse-and-orange paisley look from the late 60's?  (I'm afraid that's the first thing that pops into my mind when someone says "mod"!)

When you refer to "Martin's porkpie hat" are you talking about the blue one that he wore at Comic Con?

Last edited by Carol the Dabbler (November 4, 2012 8:08 pm)

Isn't the hat in that last photo more of a fedora?

Last edited by Carol the Dabbler (November 4, 2012 10:34 pm)

Davina wrote:

I would agree with you doc that although some aspects of 'the shoot' are Mod(ish), overall it does miss the mark. The hair slicked back is one...looks more like a Teddy Boy without a quif.

Isn't there a line in the Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night" about someone whom they called a "mocker"? A mix of a mod and a rocker. I forget which Beatle delivered that line, but probably John Lennon-- sounds like him, anyway. ***editing this later--- I think the line was Ringo's....gee, that was a long time ago, lol****

I think these pics of Martin are dreadful. ???  But then, I don't usually "get" art, so...

Last edited by ancientsgate (November 7, 2012 5:11 pm)

Yes, I realize that a basic fedora has a somewhat wider brim that curves up a bit.  I had to look up porkpie in the dictionary, but it says that they have a flat crown, not a creased one.  So it doesn't seem to be precisely either style.  Maybe he's wearing a porkora?  Or a fedpie?

Last edited by Carol the Dabbler (November 5, 2012 12:00 am)

Martin Freeman in Wild Target

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