Dont tell anyone but i used to work in the Brighton Route One too for a Summer!
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Wow, there’s a blast from the past.
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God the chain hippers , now I know why that didn’t last too long
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I’m ashamed to say I was rocking a chain as late as 99/00. Absolute mosher that I was.
At the local meet up spot I was fully mocked for a few years by the rolled up shelly crew in their finest DCs or Osiris’
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Hope you were wearing a pair of Bernies trousers.
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I had a chain for sure. Hensley onwards…92-94? God knows.
Studded belt was way worse. Every slam = T-shirt ruined.
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Repped a chain also 2001-02 I would imagine.
I had a black beanie with giant safety pins all over it.
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My early skate life was my mum and I wondering how moths were getting into my wardrobe to wreck all my t-shirts. No word of a lie, I had an epiphany maybe 5 or 6 weeks ago that it was the studded belt all along. The texture of a studded belt all hammered and misshapen by slams is something so clearly imprinted on my brain though.
2005 - 2008 has a lot to answer for.
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I had forgotten the studded belt phase 
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Studded belt was deffo 2000-2002, tho.
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Correction:
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Voluntarily outing myself as an absolute greb. If my mum would’ve allowed me to dye my hair black I would’ve been at the Schwartzkopf like a fly on shit.
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Atticus/Hurley shirt, black pinstripe trousers, studded belt and some massive balck DCs.
Oof
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First skate shop I worked in (had an indoor park attached which you, Jak Pietryga and maybe Daryl Dominguez skated with @anonymity one time) had a big, magnetic de-tagger for clothes behind the desk. Whenever you got too close it would yank your belt and always put a hole in the front of your shirt, much like a studded belt would on the back.
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I remember that park! Slippery. fun session, though.
That was where we first met, I think.
Actually I used to love a pair of XXL meccas with the carpenter pocket.
I used to rock a visor at some points, it’s no wonder I wasn’t skating with the ‘cool’ guys.
I remember my trousers being so baggy that they used create that small rip/hook on the jeans heel. I was pushing past burger king and my foot got hooked in them and I ate shit in front of a massive group of radgies who absolutely rinsed me after.
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This one made me lol.
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There were definitely a few Polo visors knocking about in the 90’s North East, I think thanks to Kareem. Some of them worn sideways and on one occasion also upside down too. Not by me, obvs.
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Meccas were great. I defo had a couple of pairs of those. Obviously my boxer shorts were permanently on show, but i never had a visor.
