takes me back! I used to pore over the clothes adverts in the music mags trying to convince my parents to buy me stuff. I had the 'Nigel' shirt, fake leather trousers, 'Duran Duran' boots, and headband! A year later (1983) I wanted the Bowie 'Let's Dance' suit but couldn't afford it. And in 1984 I was a Goth! I spent a lot of my time running away from people that wanted to beat me up!

sisters of mercy combat shirt, oh yes. i bought a pair of PVC trousers from an ad once. Wore them to a Cardiacs gig and they disintegrated on me. Pleasant journey home that was, I can assure you.

maaaaan...

The black double-breasted shirt (didn't know they were "Nigel shirts"), the grey flannel baggies from Sutton market and the grey fake suede "points" shoes. Always wanted a proper brown worn leather flying jacket to go with it, but never managed it until I bought my brother's off him - long after the rest of the ensemble was history.

I was never a Goth, but my mates were. Usually kitted out in a set-piece wardrobe of : motorbike jacket,high buttoned Paisley shirt, crimped bouffant and buckle boots.

they were called a nigel shirt. Used to wear grey peg trousers, with black winkle pickers and a fetching piece of curtain cord tied round the waste. Then whilst into TG/Whitehouse used to wear a rather grand leather german army coat with various other ex army surplus wear.

in the mid 70s when doing studio work in the US. Never saw any reason to stop wearing them since.

I wasn't overly concerned with fashion in my teenage years - *blinding light of self-revelation* - so that's why I didn't have a girlfriend.

ever suffer the indignity of trying to run for a bus in a pair of X-clothes bondage trousers with tiger skin bum flap?

What i remember is around 78/79 going into the town centre on a saturday wearing the folowing...a sparkly blue mini dress,black stockings and suspender belt,a biker boot with buckles on one foot,a white stiletto on the other,a long white doctors coat,a dog collar round my neck,black and red spiky hair,various chains,black rubber plunbers gloves,blue childrens plastic sun glasses 2 studded belts round my waist,eye make up.

What i regret is ,that unlike now,no one took photographs as a rule.

As for nigel or cavalry shirts and pleated bowie trousers ive spent weeks searching the internet trying to buy these again.We called them bowie trousers but thats also the name for womens trousers so that all the results are throwing back.I also had shirts which buttoned along one shoulder,burroned diagonally from shoulder to waist and several variations.

I then got into things like tubeway army,berlin blondes and all sorts of electronic stuff so ended up dressed like a mad robot for a few years,then gothic punk came along and now at the age of 46 im still into the music but tend to dress the way i did when i was 20.

I really cant understand why none of the vintage clothes shops sell the trs or shirts....millions of each must have been sold.
i remember one shop in greenock,a sort of boutique that sold bowie suits etc but no one can remember the name of it.

if anyone knows where i could pick up bowie trs or these shirts let me know please?

it was loon pants, tiedye granda vest, stackheel boots AND a budgie jacket.....cool as fuck.