David Cameron is wearing black leather velcro Converse Allstars in a photo in today's Daily Express.

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This is the end of hipsterism in the UK, right?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

The Telegraph notes that they cost £49:99, while the Mail says they are a strictly limited edition and "very fashionable".

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

next thing he'll be promising 'bare tax cuts, bruv'.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/15/ntory15.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/15/ixhome.html

His wife picked his clothes for him.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:53 (twenty years ago)

And he has Radiohead on his iPod. I'm sure Thom Yorke was delighted to discover that.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Once he's pictured wearing Swear boots and Cheap Monday jeans, that's when we should start to get worried.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:58 (twenty years ago)

Black leather Cons with velcro. Is this some subliminal outing of a gimp fetish by the Tory leader?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:59 (twenty years ago)

are black leather converse hipster though? what is this, 1989? i'm stuck in the past, but the more recent past.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:05 (twenty years ago)

biding my time for when vans come back in...

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:05 (twenty years ago)

you do seem like a white van man, actually

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:10 (twenty years ago)

oi oi

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Also available in white.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

I wish my wife was this filthy.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Clean me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Up the Argyle.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

This could be enough to make me switch back to pumas...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)

i haven't stopped wearing adidas shelltoes since '95, and no tory has as yet *made* me stop.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

The Telegraph also mentions his "fashionable frayed jeans".

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

this is like a flashback to 2002, and that big poster of rona keating in chuck taylors at raynes park station...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

There's a great cartoon in this week's Country Life which has two beertaps and one of them is called TRUE BLUE and has a picture of Maggie on it and then there is a rubbish beer called LITE BLUE with a picture of Cameron on it.

― She's In Parties (kate), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/XOYEx.jpg

― nakhchivan, Monday, 7 May 2012 22:46 (fourteen years ago)

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