Newcastle shops: City Stylish

In those days all the cool dudes wore Levi's Sta Prest trousers for school. They looked like the regulation greys of the school uniform, but they were Levis! You wore them with Chelsea boots or the variant that had a zip up the side. The place to get them was City Stylish in New Bridge Street. Despite being a fashion 'boutique' several of the assistants looked like your granny and served from behind old-fashioned counters. Every now and then they would run out of Levi's and claim that this was something to do with the Vietnam war.

Bryan Ferry remembers City Stylish: "There were . . . other clothes shops . . . that I used to go to in Newcastle. One was . . . trashy but I really liked it; it was called City Stylish, and there you could buy incredibly pointed Italian shoes, and also Teddy boy wedge-soled shoes. All the more outlandish clothes came from City Stylish: pencil ties, really good Teddy boy clothes and extreme Italian suits - tiny thin lapels, lots of buttons down the front and very narrow trousers. Pin-stripes - very good; wild clothes . . . I really liked that shop; I used to go and look in the window every night when I was in Newcastle."