/fa/ - Fashion

>>15766628
>>15766628
2010s-now
Coming into the early 2010s, the hipster and alt fashions that became popular were actually heavily influenced by punk-adjacent style, and I actually think there was a lot of overlap with trad skin style in general.
Grandpa sweaters and plaid shirts from the thrift store, straight and slim fit pants, Low-profile sneakers like Vans authentic actually have a pretty similar silhouette to loafers. Doc Martens even became popular again. In a lot of cases, you would've been just a short haircut away from looking like a skinhead.
Then more recently, in the last few years of the 2010s, we had fashion designers openly flirt with the aesthetic again, and culture publications finally come out and admit "Ok it wasn't a nazi thing all along and it looks pretty cool." (pic related is Yuri Pleskun for Bowen '17)
The flirtation didn't seem to last too long. I tend to think there's a bit of an active conspiracy against it. It's too accessible to the every man, and puts a bunch of grooming and maintenance industries in jeopardy.
However, we just saw this past spring, that when people didn't have access to their barbers, they defaulted to buzzcuts. i don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that we'll see a repeat phenomenon this year, or simply a bunch of people who stick with it from then.
I don't know what this means for skinhead style in general, but I sort've consider skinhead style simply as a short-haired, hard, utilitarian version, of whatever is currently stylish and fashionable, which makes me optimistic that it can keep reinventing itself into the future.