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Provenance of the clip? ITV (or maybe Channel 4) series Play at Home from the mid-80's, where contemporary music acts got to make films about themselves. The episodes for Angelic Upstarts and Echo & The Bunnymen had better content than the New Order one. But that's praxis for ye.

Saville is wearing a Teutonic jersey because its logo reminded him of the original Hugo Boss gear of the nineteen canteens, emblemising the power of flight but negating the exigencies of corporate aesthetics like the Lufthansa logo. And because it only cost three quid out of Affleck's.
Digital Plamf
2008-09-01 03:23:51

@ Digital Plamf
Thanks for that.
 Patrick Burgoyne
2008-09-01 08:27:12

I think it's a Bundeswehr West German army top. There were a lot of them kicking around in Manchester around that time, mainly vests as I remember. As the above comments suggests, it was the army surplus it was OK to wear because the Bundeswehr never attacked anybody, and Affleck's Palace was awash with them.
Brian
2008-09-01 12:26:38

@Patrick - no doubt you've by now done a YouToob search for New Order Play At Home, but the entire film is there. A genius idea for series, Play At Home, and no mistake.

@ Brian - thanks for making sense of my garbled attempt at communication. When I was a kid my dad used to say "Son, you talk in riddles". No change there, then.
Digital Plamf
2008-09-02 00:08:39

That's a very interesting post. I can't get enough of that Manchester English.
And I always wanted to have an Eames chair even if I have to become a creative director. It's not the worst job, hey.
Jana TheJunction
2008-09-03 09:37:47

Another interesting clip from the Eames school - it's not just chairs but the nature of life itself... how existential is that!

Ashley
Ashley Pollak
2008-09-04 13:54:33

I reckon Saville's German footy shirt could've been from Cafe Society - ground floor of Affleck's Arcade, Manchester. I had the same top and remember my Grandad kicking me off his allotment when I turned up wearing it!
Adrian Bentley
2008-09-06 10:15:54

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