Bowie Style

“There were some good tailors. The one I used to go to was
the same one that Marc Bolan used to go to, a fairly well-known
one in Shepherd’s Bush. I remember I saved up and got one suit
made there.
“I didn’t really have a hangout for clothes. I didn’t wear
much that was fashionable, actually. I was quite happy with
things like Fred Perrys and a pair of slacks.”
bouffant just one step ahead of the adventurous
pack, he became increasingly frustrated by failure.
The Lower Third gave way to The Buzz in 1966, but
with no appreciable change in fortunes, David
sacked them before the year was out citing financial
difficulties. The nearest he got to stardom was going
to gigs in his manager’s Mark 10 Jaguar.
But help was at hand. In September 1965, David’s
then manager Ralph Horton was discussing his
client with Ken Pitt, who’d been instrumental in the
success of Manfred Mann a year or two earlier. Pitt
advised him that with several David Jones’s already
struggling to find a foothold in the business, including
one young Mancunian soon to find fame with The
Monkees, Horton’s charge ought to consider a name