Punk Fashion

Punk's early beginnings are established around 1960 to 1970, the punk movement occurring as a reaction against the society of consumption. Rock & Roll stars are in those days more popular with the public, begin to earn big money from concerts and the music industry and begin to use their image to sell their products. In conclusion, everything was an act of rebellion come to be swallowed and accepted by the company and canceled. In these conditions, Punk subculture promises to create a line of thinking and a way of life supported by images that cannot be accepted by the mainstream of society. In principle, the anger of the members of this subculture, the pleasures that they promote and the image they present in public exceeds the limit that any civilized society could accept. Punk supporters had to be untouchable, undesirable, and to be the manipulated.

Punk's first manifest in America took place in New York. The movement extends in Great Britain in the middle of the 70s and will grow continuously. From Britain, the great punk movement comes back to the United States. In 1975 punk develops as a subculture, continually growing. In both England and America punk is a movement of young middle-class and starts as a manifestation against the high social classes, with the appearance of a social uprising.

Punk fashion should reflect the attitude of punk people, their Gothic style such as painted red or blue jeans, chains, leather jackets, army pants, safety pins everywhere, tight, tear up or cut pants and shirts, sunglasses, tattoos, makeup, dark clothing or mutilated skin. The street wear is usually completed by black clothes, army boots, and unusual haircuts: skinheads or painted in bright colors, punk slogans on jackets and backpacks. All these elements of punk clothing are expressions of the desire to be nonconformist, to leave the social picture, to be different. The Gothic clothing is meant to convey the message of his antisocial nature, to cause fear and disgust to the respectable members of society.