/fa/ - Fashion

>>15765804
Fuckin A! I wrote this all out and posted it, and it just didn't post?
Anyway I decided to keep writing a bit more.
Skinhead style came about in the 60s as a combination of elements from British Mod style, American Ivy League (which had just made it's way across the pond, and Jamaican immigrant "Rudeboy" style. The hard-part in the short buzzcuts, actually comes from emulating the hairstyles of Soul, R+B, and Reggae musicians of the 1960s. Also the term "skinhead" wasn't used by them originally, but was rather a satirical name donned on them by others. That's how most subcultures get their names though. The shaved head, and other utilitarian aspects such as work boots and jeans, likely came about as a response to what working class skinheads viewed as the middle class privilege of the British Hippies. By the time the hippie thing made it to England, it had lost most of it's dirty homeless weirdo elements, and became a gaudy fashion and drug culture for middle class kids and suburbanites.
Another bit about the boots, remember all work boots back then essentially had that same vintage workboot design. Doc martens probably fell into popularity because they were pretty much the only work boots that had modern "comfiness" technology of any sort.
The only politics involved at this point was a sense of working-class unity. Not even in a labor union sort of way, but in a "We're all the poor kids that live in the projects." sort of way. This is how the combination of white British culture and Jamaican immigrant culture came about in the first place.