2024年6月13日 · The unique and distinctive suits that developed in Lowestoft earned the fashionable fishermen the nickname of the Dockside Dandies. Tom Castleton and Fred Hoffman in suits worn by the Dockside Dandies, for an arts exhibition in 2010.

Three of the four Dandies lining up in their fantastic fashions are Steve Leach, Colin Bean and Ray Damerall. © Archant. The suits were handmade in colours ranging from lime green, vivid yellow to bright red or tartan - and because they were so distinctive the trend spread to young trawler-men at fishing ports in Hull, Grimsby and Fleetwood.

2013年3月11日 · Back in the late fifties and sixties, men working in Lowestoft's fishing industry took to wearing specially-tailored suits in red, blue, lime green and tartan that helped to illuminate the town's...

2008年5月30日 · It was back in July when former Lowestoft resident Peter Wylie first contacted the Journal. He remembered a time when fishermen in Lowestoft used to walk around town in unique suits, as they each tried to outshine each other in colours ranging from tartan to lime green and vivid yellow to bright red.

'Dockside Dandies' or 'The Dockside Dandies of Lowestoft', so titled after I gained Arts Council England funding, was a much publicised research into a 1960's craze for distinctively dazzling suits amongst young fisherman in my hometown. Upload, livestream, and …

2010年7月25日 · The Dockside Dandies were 1960s young fishermen who had created their own stylish fashion, unique to the seaside town. For fifty years this piece of cultural history had remained hidden until artist Peter Wylie researched the phenomenon and brought together a town wide exhibition of the fashion and the men who created it.

The Dockside Dandies... In the early sixties in the fishing town of Lowestoft, a group of local fishermen working on the trawlers would on return to port, get dressed up to go out on the town.

2021年10月13日 · The colourful clothes earned the fashionable fishermen the nickname of the Dockside Dandies - and the Dockside Dandies of Lowestoft are set to be recalled during two special talks this week. After returning to his hometown, London-based artist Peter Wylie - who grew up in a Lowestoft fishing family - will bring the story back to life during ...

On Saturday June 8th Peter was signing copies of the new book in the Mincarlo (Lowestoft's Historic Trawler Museum in the Harbour off South Pier) - to buy for £15 (it is only a 120 print run so get yours before they run out!)

Download this stock image: 'Dockside Dandies' including David Goldspink, 17, Ray Winney, 16, Johnny Ball, 16, Tony Scrivens, 16, at Lowestoft, Suffolk. 16th May 1962. - ETNKRP from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.