Think these were a British Boot Company produced pair. They have the old Solovair high shine leather and the traditional gold lettering. The build quality is pretty great as well. Did a few layers of brown wax on the cherry red and then finished with neutral mirror gloss. Cheers.
Hi, I'm from Italy and we've been through a strong heatwave recently and honestly I didn't know what to wear at work.
Usually I wear 501 jeans and a Fred Perry or a cotton checked shirt, but jeans are very challenging with 38°C temperature.
At office I cannot wear short pants so, do you know some brand of jeans (Levi's or similar) that don't have too heavy fabric?
Just trying to survive this summer without my legs catching fire🙏🏻
any advice is welcome! (sorry for my English)
American Oi! straight to your mug courtesy from Buffalo, New York. happy 4th everyone
Gonna be a great Oi show Saturday night, Liberty and Justice, No Time and a bunch more. If any sober/sober curious are coming, hit us up!
Just got these panels to close and started building layers. They will darken as I add brown and black in there. I like them tho. 😎
So I’m wanting to start building a collection of physical media with my music after this bullshit with PlayStation and XBox and I’m about to get a Walkman from EBay. I have a small collection of tapes from my stepmom, but none of them are Oi. Does anyone know if The Oppressed put out cassette tapes, and if they did, where I can find them? I’ve been looking on EBay and haven’t had much luck yet, so figured I might try here, just in case. I’d prefer to get them online, if possible, as I’m still somewhat homebound at the moment. Thanks!
On a bit of trip down memory lane, I started thinking about the shoes of my youth – and the cool shoes – that I was a bit too young to afford – and had gone right out of fashion by the time I could – were called Solatio Boxtops. In my head these were very much an early 70's shoe… more Suedehead than Skinhead proper – although not confined to suedes, and worn by many a Herbert bovverboy of the day. Probably with a 'wider trouser' (ie big fuck-off flares), implausibly large turnups and a brightly coloured – or white towelling – sock.
I thought I'd have a quick Google and see if anybody else remembered them – or if – and I doubted this – there may be some old deadstock for sale on eBay or somewhere. Much to my suprise, I found out Solatio still exist – or at some point have been reborn – at https://solatio.co.uk/
Now, I may be late to the party here… and everyone may be rolling their eyes going "of course they do – we've ALL been wearing them" – but I don't ever recall seeing them mentioned on this forum. The ones I remember – the Boxtops – are still in production – and as magnificently ugly, while the at the same time as cool as fuck – as I remember them. I also remember the 'crossover' style – a super 70s looking shoe, but never associated them with the Solatio brand. Again, very cool in a "if you've got the balls to carry it off properly" kind of way. They do a very nice brogue too – a lot of brogues are very nice, but just don't look 'skinhead'. These are as skinhead as fuck.
So, a nice (imho) addition to the skinhead footwear options, when you want to wear something smarter than boots, and a bit different to loafers. Nice to see they're still around, and clearly have a market somewhere (I'm guessing the Northern Soul scene is a big part of it).
Thoughts? Would you buy them? Would you wear them?
Love the gold ones I got but I feel sometimes like Ronald McDonald
does anyone have measurements on HT&HT polo shirt? I'm looking at one but it doesn't have a size guide and I don't want to deal with sending one back for another size
Solovair imo made some decent quality boots way back when their MO wasn’t all about how much money they could make in a year. These are probably the most interesting pair I’ve come across, and I believe these were the OxbloodOi! limited edition haircell leather boots that were released in 2018 (correct me if I’m wrong)
Anyways the leather is super thick but black backed cherry red topped finish with extremely tight gold stitching on the spine, eyelet panels, and heel counter.
I’ve talked personally with OxbloodOi about his partnership with Solovair and he wasn’t too happy with the results and quality that Solovair provided so he split on working with them in the future (sounds like someone else I’ve talked to) *cough cough* (HeadsThreads)
I’m starting to believe that any attempts at working with Solovair without THEM reaching out to you usually results in poor QC and lack of care on their end. Could just be coincidence but who knows.
Hope you guys are having a great week, or weekend depending on your work schedule.
Till my next ramble post
-Skinner