Punk Fashion

Punk fashion, like many other fashions, is closely connected with a particular type of music. When punk fashion first arrived on the scene, it was in order to show defiance to the heavily made up look that existed in mainstream music. The music scene in the 70’s was distinguished by heavy makeup and elaborate clothes, with equally difficult to manage hair styles. The original punk rockers all wore torn clothes and hair worn purposefully unkempt and short.

Today, punk fashion has changed a lot from when it first started, but it still remains easily identifiable. There is a very active punk community, and they form a subgroup all of their own. They have their own music in addition to style of dressing. Punks also wear very distinctive hairstyles and make up. They can sometimes be confessed with Goth or Emo, but this is because the very nature of this subculture is to not conform to rules of society.

In the very beginning, punks used to wear jeans and T-shirts that were torn on purpose and which had offensive images and statements on them. These were a very startling departure from the expensive clothes that mainstream people used to buy in order to go to a disco or musical event. The torn jeans or net leggings that punks wore were a deliberate statement against the materialism of the age. Even the heavy shoes they wore set them apart from other people.