PUNK FASHION: PUNK IS NOT WHAT YOU WEAR BUT WHO YOU ARE

Punk fashion is the styles of clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, and body modifications of the Punk subculture. The distinct social dress of other subcultures and art movements, including Glam Rock, Skinheads, Rude Boys, and Mods has influenced Punk fashion. Punk fashion has likewise influenced the styles of these groups, as well as those of popular culture. Punk uses clothing as a way of making a statement. The original Punk fashions of the 70’s were intended to appear as confrontational, shocking and rebellious as possible. This style of punk dress was significantly different from what would later be considered the basic Punk look. Many items that were commonly worn by punks in the 70’s became less common later on, and new elements were constantly added to the punk image.
Deliberately offensive T-shirts were popular in the early punk scene. Punk mostly uses T-shirts feature Crucifix and a Nazi Swastika. These T-shirts, like other punk clothing items, were often torn on purpose. Other items in the early British Punk fashion included Anarchy symbols, brightly-colored or white and black dress T-shirts, fake blood, patches, and deliberately controversial images such as the portraits of Marx, Stalin and Mussolini were popular. Leather rocker jackets and customised blazers were early, and are still a common fixture of punk fashion.
For footwear, Punk usually uses military boots, steel-toe boots, motorcycle boots, Chuck Taylor Converse All-Stars, and Dr. Martens boots. But nowadays, leather boots is very synonym with Punk subculture especially the black or dark-coloured boots.
For jeans, it is commonly dirty, torn or splattered with bleach. This style is very famous among the Punkers. Punk commonly wears skinny jeans, tight leather pants, pants with leopard patterns, and Tartans pants or skirts were commonly worn or popular choices.
Punk hair style was cropped and deliberately made to look messy, in reaction to the long smooth hairstyles that were common in the 60’s and early 70’s. Hair was often dyed bright unnatural colours. Although provocative, these hairstyles were not as extreme as later punk hairstyles, such as liberty spikes or the Mohawk hairstyle.
Hence, Punk fashion added with some accessories to feature the rebel attitude.
Other accessories worn by some punks included fishnet socks and it sometimes ripped, studded or spiked, safety pins in clothes and as body piercings, silver bracelets and heavy eyeliner worn by both men and women. Many female punks rebelled against the stereotypical image of a woman by combining clothes that were tantalizing or pretty with clothes that were considered masculine, such as combining a Bellet dress-up with boots.