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Hello Rich T.You've guessed right. I am that old New Romantic.

Sad Backstud reportingLooking through the phone books I found X clothes on Call Lane in 1980 but not before then (anywhere in Leeds)My Dad a nice gent from Middleton always called a someone born outside wedlock a "Backstud"

chameleon wrote: Cardiarms wrote: I got a pair of pointy toed, buckled strap boots with zips up the backs from there. Wore them to death, re-heeled them a couple times, jingle jangled like santa's sleigh. Didn't they first set-up in the arcade which names has chosen to elude me at this moment, parallel to the County Arcade, named after the theatre which previously stood there. Carlo & Jeffery were opposite I think. Help! I'm not sure, all i can remeber down there was bankcupt clothing. And they did.

You know what? I'm lying. I didn't get the boots at X clothes, that was the pvc trousers (hmm). I got the boots at Funny Wonder on the bottom end of Kirkgate.

Cardiarms wrote: You know what? I'm lying. I didn't get the boots at X clothes, that was the pvc trousers (hmm). I got the boots at Funny Wonder on the bottom end of Kirkgate. And we must re-mention Boodle-Am here too then.

The alternative clothing shop in the Empire aracade was called Other Clothes

Hey yes Other Clothes. Does anyone remember the name of the suave guy who used to work there? He once appeared in a fashion shoot in The Face magazine modelling a Blue Rondo A' La Turk zoot suit. I was so jealous i could have scratched his eyes out. It should have been me in my Bowie bags.

DEE wrote: The alternative clothing shop in the Empire aracade was called Other Clothes Yes you're right - but I also have a memory that this might have undergone a name change to the one in question when it moved???

Of course!Strange how a silver jubilee of cheap lager makes you forget.

X clothes was never in the Empire arcade. Just Other clothes. X clothes started off on the corn exchange side of Call Lane and then moved to the opposite side of the street,then eventually moved to Boar Lane.