Research 2

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After looking at the websites that my friend reccomended that i did i found some interesting styles and pattersn, websites such as iorn fist where extremly interesting as they have things called "look books" which are a series of photos of models completely done up in the clothing.

Iorn fist in particular was helpfull as they fetaured allot of mens clothing aswell as female, in the look book and on the website, its given me a better variety for the male character and actually given me a better basis for design than just the origonal styles of elvis and jhonny cash which where very similar and bland, rockabilly men in the modern age tend to be allot more eccentric and care more about their appearence.

These are a series of images taken from iorn fists look books, they will serve as part of a kind of mood board i do not own these images they are taken from http://www.ironfist.co.uk/lookbook:

The clothes are a more eccentric from iron fist usig the origional rockabilly styling and putting their own modern twist upon it, its a very popular brand of clothing for the alternative culture i have been looking into and is still revelant, i may use some of the more eccentric styles in the male to make him stand out more and not be overshadowed by the woman who in this sub culture are the more predominant steriotype.

Pinupgirlclothing.com have taken a more traditional look upon the rockabily style keeping to its origional style staples and tailoring it more towards "curvy" more voluptuous women, the mens clothing is very sparse and adheres to the problems i was having previously of the clothing being too simple and similar to make an individual character. the following images are owned by pinupgirlclothing.com and are bing used like the iron fist ones for mood board refference.

the mens clothing seen here http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/vintage-style-inspired-clothing/giftsforguys.html is a good example of the traditional rockabily style, showing aswell how limited it is.

womens can be seen here: http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/vintage-style-inspired-clothing/retrodresses.html

the website has protection on the images, not allowing them to be taken off the website, so i havent incase it causes a rection from them, but if you look on the womes the clothing is very figure hugging and is usualy teamed the the lingere to create this hour glass figure which is the desitred shape of a woman who wears this style of clothing, the clothing has a nice vintage feel to it and is revelaing without actually being revealing focusing more on a slight bit of cleavage and figure hugging, rater than little clothing, its what is considered a more classy way of dressing pin up.

Soho as i found out is just a sort of department store which stocks the other brands such as hell bunny and banned, banned dont really have much on tehir website as you have to become a member with a fee as far as i know, im not willing to pay it so i looked at them through attitudeclothing.com and soho.com.

Banned and hellbunny only clothing for women and the clothing features allot of casual wearable designs for everyday use featuring allot of polka dot and leapoard print.

above: banned clothing
below: hell bunny