Stripped shoes and jacket -- it's George time!

Julian and his Dad

Mister Fancy Pants

Ringo wore some of the craziest outfits in 1968!    I know people will say "that was the style back then,"  but I don't see a lot of other people in photographs from 1968 dressed quite like our Ringo.  But if anyone can pull it off -- it would be him!

Hand made

I love that these fans decorated their shirts according to their favorite Beatle and that the girl that loves Ringo included "Baby Zak" on her shirt.     


While we are at it -- check out this hand-made job that was up for auction several months ago.  Someone somewhere put in a lot of work!

Ringo wore this jacket 50 years ago

It all comes down to....

I saw this suit from Goodnight Vienna on display at the Rock in Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.   I was more excited to see it than most of the other stuff there!  

Press conference with candy stripes

The Beatles press conference in Munich will always be remembered as the press conference where Ringo Starr wore a candy cane striped suit.    Paul and John also showed off the German edition of John's 2nd book.

Beatle belts

I am not sure how this exactly fits in with the story I just posted of the Dallas Beatles  fan club girls who met the Beatles and gave them black Stetson hats and lighters.  There was another Beatles fan club in Dallas that also had a present for the Fab 4.    The Beatles ltd. club had belts made that had the Beatles' names on them.   I am not sure if this fan club got to present the belts in person or if they were sent to the guys, but I do know that the Beatles received them and wore them. 



This past June, Bonhams auction house had John's belt up on the auction block.   Here is what the auction  listing said about the belt:

 A newspaper article taken from the 'Dallas Morning News' sometime in the week the Beatles were due to arrive for their concert at the Memorial Auditorium has a photograph of Dell Perry and Suzie Chapman, of The Beatles Ltd., one of several fan clubs in Dallas at the time. They are shown holding the four belts, donated by the Justin Boot Co., that they intended to present to the Beatles.

Step inside Cavendish

I have to take a small break from the 1964 tour to share this story with you all.   I love this for so many reasons.  The first one is that only a small handful of fans that I am aware of were ever allowed inside Paul home on Cavendish Avenue and Ann Savoy has been added to that elite list!   Something else I love is that Paul is wearing a RED anchor shirt.  Several years ago this shirt was up for auction and I questioned if it was really Paul's shirt because I had only seen him wearing a BLUE anchor shirt.  But here is the proof that he indeed wore a red one as well.   (Deep topic,  I know!).    In doing a quick google search, I found that Mick Jagger's first arrest was in May of 1966.    

I found this story on the website for the newspaper, The Advertiser and it was written by
Cheryl Deval.

Photo taken by Mike McCartney.  Copyright held by Ann Savoy (pictured with Paul)

Local Musician recalls meeting Paul McCartney
By Cheryl Deval

When you're young, the most unlikely things can happen.

Just ask Ann Savoy about the time she hung out with Paul McCartney.

Yes, that one — "Sir Paul" to most of us now, back then a Liverpool lad who rocked the planet with his band before Wings.

This week, Savoy, a Eunice-based musical performer, producer and historian, posted evidence of their meeting as the cover photo on her Facebook page.

She put it there not knowing that this happens to be International Beatleweek, a festival unofficially launched last Thursday by McCartney's concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, site of the Beatles' final concert in the United States.

"When I was young, I was living with my mother and sister in Switzerland," Savoy said in a phone interview. "We took a trip to London.

"I was," she noted, "very interested in the Beatles."

So was almost every teen girl in the developed world as the band prepared to release its sitar-infused album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in mid-1967, three years into Beatlemania.
Here's how Savoy said she, at 15, got past the cordon of celebrity.

"I was with my friend Johathan Bragdon" — then in his early 20s, now a world-renowned visual artist — "and I said, 'Let's go see Paul McCartney.' "

Her idea was to pass by his home in London. Savoy's friend wanted to push it further.
"We went up to St. John's Wood where he was living. My friend said, 'I really want to talk to Paul about the influence of Indian music on his work.'

"It so happened that McCartney's brother Mike was driving through the gate," Savoy said. "So Jonathan wrote a note to Paul, handed him the note and Mike drove in.


"And the next thing we knew, (Paul) came out and said, 'Come on in.'

"We hung out for hours, talking about the influence of Indian music," Savoy said, sounding surprised 47 years later that any of this had happened. "He said he was so happy we were there."
But wait — there's more.

"There was a knock on the door and Mick Jagger came in."

Turns out that the Rolling Stones' frontman had just been released from jail after his first arrest. Somebody had tipped off the police about drug use at a party he had attended.

"He was shaken up so much," Savoy recalled. Jagger and McCartney talked while their young guests were in the room.

After awhile, she remembered, "Paul said, 'We're having a party in a couple of nights. Wanna come?'
"Here I am, a total innocent," Savoy said. Her friend Jonathan Bragdon said, "'Sure!'"
Because Bragdon was a trusted family friend, Savoy's mother allowed him to chaperone. "My mother couldn't believe it, either," she recalled, "but she let me go."

The guest list included Jagger, his muse at the time, Marianne Faithfull — wearing a Girl Guide Brownie uniform — Beat poet Alan Ginsberg and the big white dog McCartney name-checked in "Martha, My Dear."

Savoy described the tone as mellow and congenial with good food and conversation. "The people were quite gentlemanly," she said. "They weren't acting like bad boys — they were holding out chairs for the ladies. I just couldn't believe that.

"I was one of 'em. The thing was, it was very unbelievable."

But she had proof that it had happened — the photo Mike McCartney took at her friend Jonathan's suggestion. It ended up in her high school newspaper.

Since Savoy's memento of what she calls her "once-in-a-lifetime weird little moment" surfaced on Facebook, "I've gotten so many comments on it," she said.

During the years in between — when she moved to Louisiana, married accordion master Marc Savoy, reared four children including Grammy winners Joel and Wilson, and produced well-reviewed albums including "Evangeline Made" and "Creole Bred" — she's taken some big lessons from that little moment.

"The whole thing inspired me on every level. When I produced those (recording) projects with rock stars, I wasn't intimidated.

"At that extremely impressionable age, to be invited into such an incredible situation, made me realize that anything can happen," Ann Savoy said, adding, "Be prepared for it."

The cape caper

The story behind the cape that the Beatles wore when they came to Australia was that in Amsterdam, when they were on the canal trip, waving to all of the fans, John spots a young man wearing a cape.   He really likes it, as do the other Beatles and they say something about wanting one of those capes to Mal Evans.   Mal chases this young guy down and finds out what he can about the cape.   If I remember correctly, the guy gives him the cape and the boys have a set custom made for them.   But that part might not be totally correct. 

Anyhow....Neil Aspinall talks about this in the Anthology, that they must have been made out of poorly made materials because once they got wet in Sydney, the dye in the cloth ran and when they took them off in the hotel, the Beatles had blue-ish (not Blue Meanie) skin!  

However, they obviously really liked the capes because they continued to use that style in the movie and cover for Help!

This past fall, Paul's cape that he wore in Sydney was up for auction.   However, Paul's people pulled it from the auction a few days before the auction started.  I am not sure if Paul has the cape back in his possession or what happened to it.  

The whistler

Sweet Beatles shirt

Here is Al Astrella in 1964, sporting his sweet Beatles shirt.   This shirt goes for over $100.  This photo is posted here with Al's permission.

Sweet nothings

This is an interesting photo.   Who is the barely dressed woman whispering sweet nothings into Paul McCartney's ear?   What occasion was this?  It must be 1965 because John is wearing his "Rubber Soul" jacket.    And also who is "Uncle Jack?"  

Ringo and Maureen: a mod couple

I love the fashions that Ringo and Maureen were wearing in 1968!   So 1960's looking and stylish!

Off to Greece

Blurry times in Germany in 1966

The vendor at the venue where the Beatles performed, who also took these photos is seen here trying on Paul's suit!  I wonder if Paul knew about that?!

High class Beatlemania

Technicolor Dream

Fans hats

All four members of the Beatles have worn some pretty neat hats over the years.  I think John and Ringo especially were known for their hats.   They even made replica versions of them in the 1960's.   Recently when Ringo and his All Star Band played Baltimore, a fan named Dr. Bob (who wrote one of the single best books about the Yellow Submarine ever and if his last name wasn't so long, I would type it out) threw the hat he had on his head onto the stage.   Ringo picked it up and wore it!   You can see a video and Dr. Bob's little story about this here.

And that is pretty cool!   To think that the hat that was on your head was suddenly on Ringo's head is very neat.  If you watch the video clip, Ringo acknowledges Dr. Bob with a little bow.   Awesome!  I would have been thrilled out of my mind.  But it gets better.   On August 8, 2012, Ringo posts one of his video messages and what is he wearing?   Well yeah...a  Revolver t-shirt....but he is also wearing Dr. Bob's hat!    Alright if that was me, I would be totally freaking out!   Ringo must REALLY like that hat!

This wasn't the first time a fan threw a hat onto the stage and one of the Beatles picked it up and wore it.   A fan made this hat for Paul and tossed it onto the stage and Paul plopped it on his head.   Yet...I do not think Paul wore it after the show.

And then we can't forget that in 1965, the opposite happened to John Lennon and a fan jumped onto the stage and ripped the hat John was wearing right off his mop topped head.  

So now in the past month I have written a blog post about Paul's socks and the Beatles hats.   My goodness...I need to get out more.

Everybody pulled their socks up (an tribute to Paul's socks)

The photo that started it all:   Paul's yellow socks.

This blog post tonight in in honor of the friends I made at the Bootlegzone forum many years ago.  Thanks for mentioning my this blog recently.   

When I started this blog, I had no idea that the Beatles clothing would be such a big topic.   But us fans pay attention to what the Beatles wore and when they wore it.   Besides the Beatles wore some pretty amazing clothes.   In the upcoming months I am going to try my hand at making some "pages" on the blog about some of our favorite articles of clothing.   Just basically put all of the photos in one spot and get the information we have gathered together for future reference.   To get us started, I thought I would post photos of one of my favorite topics, Paul McCartney's socks!   Yes....you read correctly.  The man who made a song called "Lunch box/Odd socks" really liked to show off his socks.   He may be well-known for being the barefoot one that crossed Abbey Road, but the man really enjoys wearing coloring socks.

This might not be the last post on this topic.   Just a warning.

Sadly this photo from a Sgt. Pepper session in 1967 is in black and white. Nice socks, but what color?

For sitting at the feet of the Maharishi in 1967, Paul choose the red pair. 

Paul wore his pink suit in during the Cavendish dome part of the Mad Day out photo shoot in 1968, better wear those pink socks!

Blue for the rooftop!

By the time he was in Wings, he got his wife in on the sock craziness.