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Sunday, March 7, 2021


Pat Rocco took this photo of Ron Dilly in 1970.  Ron appeared in several of Mr. Rocco's porn films, and I can't help but wonder if Dilly isn't a stage name vs. the real thing.  The shirt is an era classic.

 

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  1. Wasn't Ron Dilly a handsome beast... Like most things - department stores, zip fasteners and even Christian Science - even this shirt managed to find its way across the Atlantic. I know, because I owned one - and even wore it...

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    1. Only a few years earlier the trans-Atlantic men's fashion traffic was in the opposite direction. Remember Carnaby Street?

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  2. The clothes followed in the wake of the wave of Brit Pop called the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and the Stones, which reversed the trend started by Elvis Presley and later Buddy Holly. I was just a tad too young ever to have shopped there but it was so famous, and London so swinging, that I was taken there to see it. Given the anti-war and anti-nuclear sentiment amongst the younger, post-war generation, I remember now that the whole street was festooned with Union Flags, and for so seemingly socialist a generation, many of the small businesses and manufacturers had a Union Flag and "Made in Britain" proudly stamped on their clothes - but none "By Appointment to the Prince of Wales"!

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    1. I was old enough to have actually bought some Carnaby Street knockoffs from several retailers in Texas, of all places. Some of the look was retro, as in granny dresses and Edwardian jackets, only with loud colors and psychedelic prints. I had an op art print shirt that made people dizzy when they stared at my back.

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