Riders and Dealers. Boots from the 80s
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Wiseman_Vaughn
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I remember dealers from the 70s. Lots of the lads at school had them. Leather soles and a bright yellow leather. I wasn’t keen myself being more of a traditionalist. I stuck to my 8 hole ox blood DMs.
Norman_Conquest
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I still have two pair that I wear regularly.
One pair with air wear soles that I wear in the workshop, and a pair I use for casual wear.
One pair with air wear soles that I wear in the workshop, and a pair I use for casual wear.
Hap
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I’m not sure that they’re not the same thing, which is why I asked. Maybe the names were different regionally? I have heard of both.
Riders were common at school early 80s. I think DMs took over?
I was wearing completely different stuff and didn’t own either.
Norman_Conquest
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I believe different areas had different names for them. Dealer or Chelsea boots was more a southern name for them. We always called them 'jutters.'
Hap
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Jutters? Not heard that name before.
Lots of regional names for everthing back then I guess.
Norman_Conquest
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Hap
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I had a bright red
I was into different music and wearing something completely different. It didn’t always go down well *laughing crying emoji*
You could easily be right. I remember both styles but not sure which way around it went.
I was into different music and wearing something completely different. It didn’t always go down well *laughing crying emoji*
mercury_redstone7
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Dealers were brogue pattern riders plain. I had at 5 pairs of riders from Darkie Rodgers on Durham Rd. yellow red Black and dyed one pair blue. Tuxan red Tuxan Blue. Oxblood Kiwi polish, used to little styrup key rings in the pull tags. Cool as .
Chorleygeorge
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I had yellow riders with segs from the pet shop in Redcar
Norman_Conquest
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There was a guy in Whale Hill that sold them from the back of his house and I got a few pairs off him, but we would mainly go over to the horse sales in Stanley and buy them from there for a lot cheaper.
I was into horse riding and used to look after the gypsies horses in the summer when they went travelling for the shows. I knew a bloke who had a field at the bottom of Eston Hills and I would hire it from him and then charge the Foster's a few quid extra and have the best of both worlds - horses to ride and money in my pocket.
I was into horse riding and used to look after the gypsies horses in the summer when they went travelling for the shows. I knew a bloke who had a field at the bottom of Eston Hills and I would hire it from him and then charge the Foster's a few quid extra and have the best of both worlds - horses to ride and money in my pocket.
Hap
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That must have been interesting. They’re a tight community and I guess they don’t let many outsiders in?
Norman_Conquest
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One of the lads (Flappa) had a pair that where a cross between cowboy boots and riding boots. When we were at the Dock, the heel had worn down on them and we made him a new heel out of 1/4 inch plate. We got holes countersunk into it for him to screw it to the heels. He sounded like a horse coming down the road. Loads of laughing emoji's.
Fattyfoggon
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I had Dealers always thought they were the square toe version whilst riders were a round toe
Norman_Conquest
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I knew them from school and had also been in hospital with one of them. My mate was buying a horse off one of them that wasn't broken in and because I was the smallest, I had to get on it. It was like something out of the Bonanza, with this thing throwing me all over the place, but I hung on and it settled down.
We later learnt it needed to be led around on a long rein and introduced to a saddle, etc. and that we couldn't do it like the wild west.
Hap
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The only time we ever saw a horse, it was attached to the rag and bone man’s cart
Norman_Conquest
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One of them had returned to school after being missing for two years and because he knew me he was put in all my classes.
The first day, we were sat in French in the afternoon and the teacher, trying to include him in the lesson says, "Can you tell me the French vowels?" to which he replied, "I don't even know the ferken English ones." Laughing emojis
The teacher came storming down the class and I met him half way and asked if I could have a word with him outside the class. I explained the situation and we both laughed. The teacher still mentions it when I see him.