The sentiment is great but too much ignorance in this thread, posters should learn more of the history and identity of the club, with this knowledge you can then understand why being casual is an original scouse phenomenon and should be celebrated rather than panned by posters who clearly do not understand it.
There's people saying casual went out of fashion? hahahha
It used to be a uniquely scouse thing, but not any more. It had its heyday in the 80s and with 90s 'lad culture' and times have moved on.
don't remember flares or the bee gees look coming back into fashion after the casual movement, and there hasn't been any significant mainstream fashion movement since.
Maybe you're too young to remember Madchester or acid house then, or the impact hip hop culture has had on modern trends (like big padded jackets etc.).
Were all Casuals, unless you don't wear branded clothing, training shoes or any sort of sportswear.
That would be me then, and many others I would think.
The Casual scene has changed the face of UK fashion scene, never to revert, but because we were the trailblazers, and what's more scousers are still the best dressed fans, we have the right to celebrate that and will continue to do so in a uniquely scouse way.
You can go to any ground in the country (and even beyond the UK) and see lads wearing the same stuff, the same labels and styles etc.
People who wear casual gear now are just copying a style that they think makes them unique, when it does anything but, and it's kinda missing the point if you ask me.
When those styles originated on the Kop in the late 70s it was an organic thing, which grew out of lads forging their own identity which was of a time and place. They weren't copying anyone, people copied them.
They took sportswear and re-contexualized it, gave it a new lease of life. That's what was so original about it. No-one had even thought of wearing sportswear as a means to just look smart before. In a similar way to how mods took the US college/preppy look and made it their own, or how punks took bondage gear and made that their own etc.
Nowadays, sports clothing companies know that people wear sportswear as fashion items, and so they make and market clothes aimed at those people. In the late 70s that wasn't the case. Fila were making tops for people who played tennis, not people who went to the match. That's what made wearing that gear such a unique statement.
How is looking like some lad from north London or Derby or Stoke a uniquely scouse thing any more?
Maybe there are some recent elements of it, some small details that are uniquely scouse.
I wouldn't know, not being scouse myself. But if there are, they're not obvious to me.
Are there any uniquely scouse styles any more? Would love to know if there are, but it seems high street fashion is so dominant and homogenized now, that those types of localized styles that sprang up decades ago are a thing of the past.
It's very hard to tell where anyone is from anymore, simply by what they're wearing.
Similarly, you could be standing on any high street in the UK (or Ireland) and not know where you are, because every high street will have the same shops selling the same stuff.
I do think its right and proper to look smart at the footy though, whatever you're wearing.
It's about taking pride in who you are and why you're there, whether you're scouse or not.
Not buying into some look you saw in a lads mag, or buying expensive trabs on ebay, and thinking it makes you look unique.
Not having a go at you or anyone else mate, just my 2 cents on an interesting subject.