I’m not sure what the American equivalent to skinhead style would be. I don’t think there was one, cause of the way our class system works where rich people don’t wear silk shirts.
Look at an American movie of the time like Love Story and it’s Ryan O’Neal playing a rich college student and he’s wearing jeans (speaking of Love Story what kind of tagline is “love means never having to say you’re sorry”? Is there a less true tagline in the whole world?) .
People dressed like this in America too, but years later and they’re usually fetishists of one kind of another whether that means racists, anti-racists or anglophilic weirdos. We just want to wear sans-a-belt trousers and “who farted?” t-shirts.
It’s funny how this whole 6 part segment about youth culture and style (you can follow the links to the other part through youtube- the final chapter, about chavs, rules) only touches tangentially on girls and what they wore a little bit. Youth culture seems to be defined by what boys do and wear. Can you think of an exception?
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jake
// Nov 9, 2009 at 6:58 pm
I can’t answer any of your questions, Phil, but this vid is really cool.
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phil
// Nov 9, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Watch all 6 parts, they’re all really good.
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
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dav
// Nov 10, 2009 at 7:04 am
I just watched the whole series. So badass. My buddies and I tried way too hard to look like this in our early 20′s.
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Smith
// Nov 10, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I would say the cholo is as close as America came.
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phil
// Nov 10, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I think you’re right.
Hey smith if you don’t like the picture it gives you, click on it and it will take you to a spot where you can change it to whatever you want.
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tarbot
// Nov 12, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I love shit like this- very interesting to me.
@Phil, I’m sure smith is quite happy with the picture gravatar picked out for him
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