1.8: What is with the narrow-brim hats, dark suits and narrow ties? How come some of these ska bands look like the Blues Brothers? (Ska)
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This article is from the Ska FAQ, by Tomas Willis tomas@twillis.com with numerous contributions by others.
1.8: What is with the narrow-brim hats, dark suits and narrow ties? How come some of these ska bands look like the Blues Brothers? (Ska)
This is rude boy fashion from Jamaica in the 1960s.
Jamie Mowder in NYC (mowder@axp1.acf.nyu.edu.) writes about ska
fashion:
Maybe the "dark suit and pork-pie hat" thing comes from people
trying to look like Jerry Dammers from those old Specials album
covers. And *he* was probably trying to look like "Walt Jabsco",
the cartoon guy from the 2 Tone label design. And Walt was (so
I've read) modeled after the way Peter Tosh looked on the cover of
the `Wailing Wailers' album from Studio One.
So, I guess all these *Blues Brothers* types are actually trying
to look like Peter Tosh from 1965! It is "rude bwoy" fashion from
Jamaica.
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