I’m not sure what the American equivalent to skinhead style would be.  I don’t think there was one, in part cause of the way our class system works, you 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 (by the way speaking of Love Story what the fuck kind of tagline is “love means never having to say you’re sorry”? Is there a less true tagline in the whole world?  At least Die Hard’s tag line “It will blow you through the back wall of the theater!” suggested some kind of glory hole action) .

Yes people dressed like this in America, but years later and they tended to be fetishists of one kind of another whether that means racists, anti-racists or just anglophilic weirdos.  In large part our nation just wants 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.  In large part that’s how youth culture stuff is defined, by what boys do and wear.  Can you think of an exception?