Grandad’s punk clothes ‘too rude’ for Antiques Roadshow | UK News

It appears there’s no finish to the bizarre and great merchandise that are usually introduced along to the Antiques Roadshow. Last yr, Robert Needs compelled followers to do a double take when he introduced a long his assortment of classic punk fashion assortment to the BBC show.

The Sunday teatime show travelled to the guts of Cardiff where the 68-year-old granddad gave followers an insight into his youth where he usually partied with the rock group in their Seventies heyday. While reflecting on his punk rock years, he introduced out his clothes assortment that he purchased from the London boutique Sex. But many of the gadgets had been deemed unsuitable.

Expert Lisa Lloyd started: “Incredibly un-PC” as Robert chuckled: “They told me they couldn’t show most of them on camera. Way too naughty for Roadshow viewers I suppose.”

Sex was run by fashion icon Dame Viviene Westwood and her accomplice, the Pistols’ supervisor Malcome McLaren. It was where the band met and took their title from and was famend for their outrageous designs.

Robert went on: “I shouldn’t really be shocked though because a lot of Westwood’s designs were deliberately very provocative, with plenty of nudity or imagery which could be considered offensive – like Nazi swastikas, for example.

“But that was the whole point of it back then, they were intended to be controversial.” Robert fondly recalled his teenage years and often catching the prepare to London to go to Sex.

He added: “There was already a ready-made punk scene going on in south Wales at the time, except we called ourselves ‘Soul Boys’ – the term ‘punk’ was more something the media came up with later on.

“And it was during a visit to Sex that we met the lads from the Pistols. They were amazed to hear they had a lot of Welsh fans back home because they’d drawn mostly hostile reactions whilst playing in other parts of the UK.”

As a outcome, Johnny Rotten and his bandmates made one of their few appearances in Wales – at Newport’s Stowaway Club in 1976 – where they invited Robert backstage to hang around with them.

Reflecting on the once-in-a-lifetime second, he gushed: “They were unlike anything I’d seen or heard before, and the rubber-style pink T-shirt I wore that Pistols concert was among the ones I took along to the Roadshow.

“It’s still in good nick too, although it would never fit me now. Actually, looking at how small all the shirts are, it’s a wonder I was ever able to squeeze into any of them.”

He mentioned many of those Westwood originals have grow to be more and more onerous to discover, making them massively fascinating for fashion and music fanatics worldwide.

The proud proprietor was virtually misplaced for phrases when he learnt how a lot the assertion shirts would make, revealing: “I was told the shirts, of which I’ve got about 20, could fetch around £1,000 each at auction – that’s mad, isn’t it?”

“That said, I don’t really want to sell them – I’d much rather they went on display in a gallery somewhere, as long as they were all safe and properly insured.

“It’d be lovely to think of them getting a second lease of life and others getting the same enjoyment out of looking at them as I had wearing them.”