The Way We Wore · A Life in Threads

‘The youth-cult confessional to end them all… if you grew up in the Seventies or Eighties, if you ever spent more on a pair of trousers than you needed to, if you ever got beaten up for having the wrong haircut, then this is the book for you. Funny, accurate and touching' Dylan Jones, GQ

Robert Elms can remember the moment he fell in love with clothes: It was 1965, and the record player in the North London living room was spinning Otis Redding. His older brother was putting on a show for their parents, dancing across the floral carpet in his new blue Italian-made mohair suit. Five-year-old Robert sat mesmerised.

As the lead writer for hip style bible, The Face, Robert Elms defined what was cool in the mid-eighties for a generation of British teenagers. From mod to punk, there’s barely a look he didn’t dabble in over the years. This hilarious sartorial memoir is a love letter to London street fashion, from the Teddy Boys and suedeheads to wannabe cowboys and Comme des Garcon devotees.

Praise for The Way We Wore :

**'A wonderful book that should be read by everyone who believes that clothes are tools for living' - Tony Parsons

'Blinding read!' - Taxi

'If I could write and had to write a book about clothes, this would be it. A bloody brilliant book' - Paul Smith

'Incisive, obsessive and quite brilliant’ - Observer Music Monthly

'As stylish and witty as the finery it obsesses over' - Independent On Sunday

'Provocative, charming and fiercely proud' - Daily Telegraph

‘A brave, unexpected and wonderful book’ - Independent

‘A hymn to the burning desire of young men to look right and look smart’ - Evening Standard**