In the last few months whilst travelling around the Manchester Area i have noticed lots of people either with Keep The Faith bags or small badges on lapels . Has this come as a new kind of fashion accessory, or have people got them mixed up thinking they have something to do with Pope's visit. Just on the bus going into Manchester the other day one lady had a keep the faith bag whilst a young lad had a badge on his bag. In Withington two young schoolgirls were going to school, both had new shiney Keep The Faith bags round their shoulders. I am sure that they are not all Northern fans..On this subject does anybody know who first designed and made the first patches. I remember going to the Torch with a Torch patch on one side, and a Right on Patch sewn on the other top side of my Levi jacket. By the time The Casino came along there was patches galore. Obviously the closed fist was symbol of The Black Power movement and Right on slang of the time. Any info?

In the last few months whilst travelling around the Manchester Area i have noticed lots of people either with Keep The Faith bags or small badges on lapels . Has this come as a new kind of fashion accessory, or have people got them mixed up thinking they have something to do with Pope's visit. Just on the bus going into Manchester the other day one lady had a keep the faith bag whilst a young lad had a badge on his bag. In Withington two young schoolgirls were going to school, both had new shiney Keep The Faith bags round their shoulders. I am sure that they are not all Northern fans..On this subject does anybody know who first designed and made the first patches. I remember going to the Torch with a Torch patch on one side, and a Right on Patch sewn on the other top side of my Levi jacket. By the time The Casino came along there was patches galore. Obviously the closed fist was symbol of The Black Power movement and Right on slang of the time. Any info?

I work in a university library - one day a young guy came to the counter with a t shirt with Northern Soul written across it - I asked him if he was into the music and he didn't know what I was talking about he said he just liked the t shirt so he bought it.

Cheers

Manus

Leeds has been full of this tat for years, none of them know what it actually means!

Ste.

in my daughters college its a fashion item, loads of northern soul / wigan casino / keep the faith bags and t-shirts but like you say most of them dont no what it is , my dughter does cos she's been brought up on soul music and knows what its all about and wont have one cos she knows i'll take the p**s,.

Stickers and Badges are very cheap to have reproduced now days and we often see stall holders at weekenders selling the like.

I'd kill for an original Lambrini Badge

Always been many around Manchester.. The black fist and Northern Soul is a real eye catcher to many folk... I think its a quality image if you take a step back and look at it....

The trouble is that we on the inside associate the image with all Northern soul tat that belongs on the market or weekender stalls with lady's briefs with a black fist on them ... The over used image, just like Wigan gives many of us the the blues, not soul as it was intended...

But to a young trendie i can see the attraction..... And it does look good on many of them in my humble opinion.. This kind of things meant for cute/ skinny kids, not for an older people with a full figure ...

Overused images to us are still a great image when you step back, the Target and the mod scene being another example.... That like the fist is a design classic.... Again in my humble opinion, thats why they keep coming back, time and time again....

Never seen an older lady wearing the black fist knickers, i have seen some being bought by them... Maybe best i get the thought and picture out of my head now ....

ktf.... Kill greasers.. Fancy a beach fight... Here comes the night owl.... Right on brother... Black N White unite... We are the mods.... bla bla bla bla bla bla.... Ok when a teenager but not so cool when we are putting our teeth in a jar each night...

Just a thought..

Always been many around Manchester.. The black fist and Northern Soul is a real eye catcher to many folk... I think its a quality image if you take a step back and look at it....

The trouble is that we on the inside associate the image with all Northern soul tat that belongs on the market or weekender stalls with lady's briefs with a black fist on them ... The over used image, just like Wigan gives many of us the the blues, not soul as it was intended...

But to a young trendie i can see the attraction..... And it does look good on many of them in my humble opinion.. This kind of things meant for cute/ skinny kids, not for an older people with a full figure ...

Overused images to us are still a great image when you step back, the Target and the mod scene being another example.... That like the fist is a design classic.... Again in my humble opinion, thats why they keep coming back, time and time again....

Never seen an older lady wearing the black fist knickers, i have seen some being bought by them... Maybe best i get the thought and picture out of my head now ....

ktf.... Kill greasers.. Fancy a beach fight... Here comes the night owl.... Right on brother... Black N White unite... We are the mods.... bla bla bla bla bla bla.... Ok when a teenager but not so cool when we are putting our teeth in a jar each night...

Just a thought..

it used to be about the symbolic sense of belonging that young people identified each other with.

"logo ism" as a means to identify with each other when you were 16 years old .

Its when I see oldler folk with embroidered polo shirts with "so n so scooter club" or "so n so soul club"

I must admit, that's when I have a quiet smile to myself.

These days the target and the fist are just pop art logos that turn up on everything from mugs, bags, t shirts to cigarette lighters.

I have taken to walking around town these days with a rare 7 inch record glued to my head to let everyone know what I am into.

Fashion conscious youth faithfully following fashion revivalist Fizz from Corrie

ktf.... Kill greasers.. Fancy a beach fight... Here comes the night owl.... Right on brother... Black N White unite... We are the mods.... bla bla bla bla bla bla.... Ok when a teenager but not so cool when we are putting our teeth in a jar each night...

Just a thought..

I like to think that my Right On false teeth overnight sterident soaker is quite hip.

I was at V festival over the summer, more Northern Soul shirts than band shirts. Similar to other posts, my son Joe is 20 - he threatens to buy me one but only as a joke. He wouldn't get one for himslf as he knows how much it would entertain me, and that's the last thing he'd want to do. I think NS is up there with SuperDry as a label at the moment, and just as relevent to the kids wearing it.

it's a fashion statement once people start everyone will jump on the bandwagon and think it is cool. Maybe Duffy had a lot to answer for lol. kids who watch TV and see people like Duffy and they say she was influenced by Northern soul and they show some patch and then they go out and see these on bags.

I do wish if i see some they would know what it means, mind you some older folk don't care i saw someone once here in street with jacket on some patches on it i said i was into Northern soul showed him my bag and he didn't seem to care.