The sleeve photos for Being boring were taken in the Pet Shop Boys’ London office by a photographic duo called The Douglas Brothers. (“The way they work is quite unusual,” says Neil. “Whilst one of them sets up the shot, the other photographs”). Chris is wearing a Michiko inflatable jacket from the Michiko shop in London’s Neal Street along with a cheap leather hat that he bought specially (“I know what I wanted, so I had to go and find one”), Jean Paul Gaultier sunglasses, white trousers and Air Jordan trainers: “I had it all conceived in my head.” Neil is wearing the same Thierry Mugler outfit as he wore in the So hard video. The photographs were originally taken for an article in an American magazine called Creem, but the Pet Shop Boys liked them so much they bought some of them. In the article Chris is described as looking like “a B-boy from Pluto” and enthuses about the jacket, “I love it. It comes in a bag!”