Billy Connolly Inspired £1,750 Designer Banana Boots – BBC
Fri 26 Jul
Text Graeme Ogston | Photography Courtesy of Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY
A Scottish fashion designer says his take on Billy Connolly’s iconic banana boots have been a sell-out hit. Charles Jeffrey’s £1,750 boots are a nod to the original pair, which he saw as a child on display at the People’s Palace museum in Glasgow. The 33-year-old, from Bellshill in Lanarkshire, said a sense of humour was “incredibly intrinsic” to his work. Comedy legend Connolly famously wore his banana boots on stage at his live shows during the 1970s.
"Banana boots have been a sell-out hit."
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The original boots were designed by Glasgow pop artist Edmund Smith. The new version are part of the latest collection from Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY. The designer told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland: "I was tagged in a photograph that was of a pair of trousers that had been cut from the knee down to the ankle to sort of fold like a banana peel. "And people tagged me in that photo and said "banana boots by Charles Jeffrey Loverboy." "That went viral, and we thought we'd never actually made these boots. I thought maybe we should just do them."
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