re: #119 Sol Berdinowitz

There is a real brand called Lonsdale, which they used to wear with the letters covered just showing the NS…it inspired some idiot to come up with “Lonsdaple”

A lot of the stuff is forbidden in Germany, but just drive over the border to Poland or Czechoslovakia and you can find it at any flea market or roadside stand…

OK. I’ve never seen ‘Lonsdaple’ here in the Czech Republic, but I’ve certainly seen the original - it’s a fairly popular label.

Never seen anyone wearing ‘Thor Steinar’ - it’s not illegal - but even in Berlin I didn’t see anyone wearing it; I did, however, see plenty of ‘Storch Heinar’, but then I was living in Kreuzberg, which is a fairly leftie sort of part of town. A nice place, actually - I lived in a wohngemeinschaft, which was interesting.