Punk rock fashion wasn t heard of or seen until the mid 1970 s.

It first originated in London as an aggressive and strong movement, and stated itself as a sub culture.

Punk rock evolved in the 1970 s due to many adolescents having limited money, and a low income.

The punk rock style of clothes suited their poor financial lifestyle.

The clothes suited the lifestyle of those with limited cash due to unemployment and the general low income school leavers or students often experience.

Young people classified themselves as an anti fashion urban youth street culture group and wore clothes that attracted attention.

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influencing the punk rock culture Vivienne Westwood was major part of helping the subculture to enter main stream fashion when she and Malcolm Edwards demonstrated punk fashion ideas through their joint designs Punk fashion was worn on bands such as the Se Pistol, The Clash, and The Exploited.

The public were first taken aback by this new fashion style. There were many different views and opinion about this subculture for the general public. Young people tended to favour the punk rock style and incorporated punk trends into their fashion style. However, older people were slightly scared of this new fashion and many disliked the new DIY ideas. They thought it was too outrageous and crazy compared to the general public fashion.

y Musically, punk rock was a backlash against the overblown, overproduced, corporate rock of the time. y Stripped back to basic, snarling guitars, simplistic rhythms, angst-fuelled vocals, punk rock was wake-up call to both fans and the industry. y Punk is more than just music; it has an in depth philosophy, based on anarchist political views and liberation. (Cahill 1998: 3). y Twenty five or thirty years ago it was true that unique styles of fashion were not accepted and shamed upon but nowadays, so many different subcultures are accepted and admired, and now even the older generation does not titter towards these fashion styles.

Out of the general population, mostly and adolescents were known to wear the punk fashion. This was because they were the most likely to have a low income and wear old clothes that had been deconstructed. Punk celebritieso o o o o o Avril Lavinge Good Charlotte Escape the Fate Bullet for my valentine Kelly Osbourne Ruby Rose

The punk fashion promoted DIY (do it yourself). They cut up old or cheap clothes and destroying the fabric, refashioned the outfits in a manner then thought as a crude construction technique. This was a shock to many people because until then, fabric was seen as a material to keep as pristine, and new looking as possible.

          

Tore fabrics Frayed edges Defaced prints Accessorises to attract attention. Dog chains, Safety pins, Fishnet stockings, Studded belts Doc. Martens footwear were normally worn or Converse Piercing Tattoos

Both female and male were also known to shave areas of their hair, to look more intimidating.

Piercings could be in ears, noses, chins, tongue, lips, and eyebrows, and generally with safety pins, or nails.

Hair was normally spiked very high and alot of product such as hair spray, gel, and sometimes even glue were used to keep the hair in place. Mostly, hair was dyed dark colours, normally black, bleached white/blonde, and sometimes had pink streaks.

Tattoos were placed all over their body, normally in more public body areas to attract attention.

Makeup was also a doctor in achieving this look. Many wore dark makeup, such as dark eye shadows, eyeliner, dark toned lip liner and lipstick to look more catlike.

3. Wh in th general population is wearing this look (adolescents, university students, rich kids, poor kids, rebels, conformists?)

re there any celebrities who dress to fit into this sub-culture?

4. List any music, books, TV shows, historical events etc that would be associated with that sub culture. 5. Describe how you could personalise an item of clothing to fit the style criteria and detail and illustrate instructions for doing this in a text box. 6. Complete reference.

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Make it you own ! 1. Dye the shirt a dark colour 2. Cut off the sleeves, to give a rugged look. 3. Iron on a punk image on to the front of the shirt 4. Add a dog chain at the bottom 5. Clip safety pins around the shirt 6. Wear it with some converse shoes and jeans (

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Today everyone knows what punk fashion is, but in 1970 it didn't exist. Punk first emerged in the mid 1970s in London as an anarchic and aggressive movement. About 200 young people defined themselves as an anti -fashion urban youth street culture. Closely aligned was a music movement that took the name punk.

Anti Fashion - Torn Fashion Becomes Punk Fashion

The clothes suited the lifestyle of those with limited cash due to unemployment and the general low income school leavers or students often experience. Punks cut up old clothes from charity and thrift shops, destroyed the fabric and refashioned outfits in a manner then thought a crude constructi on technique, making garments designed to attract attention. It deconstructed garments into new forms. Whilst torn fabrics, frayed edges and defaced prints are now considered normal in the 21st century, in the 1970s it shocked many people, because it had never been seen before. Until then fabric had been treated as a material to keep as pristine, new looking and beautiful as possible. Trousers were deliberately torn to reveal laddered tights and dirty legs. They were worn with heavy Doc Martens footwear, a utilitarian, practical traffic meter maid type

of footwear in that era, not seen on many young women until then. Safety pins and chains held bits of fabric together. Neck chains were made from padlocks and chain and even razor blades were used as pendants. The latter emerged as a mainstream fashion status symbols a few years later when worked in gold.

Self Mutilation and Body Piercings

Body piercing was done in parts other than the usual accepted placement in the ear lobe. The placement of studs and pins in facial body parts such as eyebrows and cheeks, noses or lips for the masses was then quite unusual even after the freedom of the 1960s. Although it is known that Edwardian ladies used to have rings inserted into their nipples to make their breasts stands up more pertly, this was not a usual practice among the masses of the 1960s and 70s. Self-mutilation, rejection of prettiness and body piercing was not a norm then. The chosen placement of body jewellery and tattoos of the new punks was deliberately intended to offend the more conventional members of society. The fashion was also unisex and men began to sport facial jewellery. What we take as a normal strand of fashion today was all quite unusual then. Body piercing seems everyday now in the 21st century. It entered mainstream fashion quite rapidly, beginning with the three stud earlobe, progressing to the whole ear outline embedded with ear studs. This was followed by Goths sporting nose studs in the early 80s. Then in the 1990s belly, tongue and genital piercings all gathered a following among the masses.

Bondage in Early Punk Fashion

Black leather, studs, chains, mufti fabrics, greyed sweated out black T shirts, bondage animal print bum flaps and leg straps epitomise some of the looks that immediately spring to mind when thinking of the early punks. What was then thought to be blatant and obvious sexual references in written form, on dyed and destroyed vests have again become a norm and the masses happily don Tshirts emblazoned with fcuk or crave a graffiti print covered Louis Vuitton bag, both fashions very much accepted because of the path set by the early punk movement.

Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren Open Seditionaries Shop

Punk as a style succeeded even more when Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren formerly Malcolm Edwards, publicized the ideas through their joint design ventures. McLaren launched the 'Sex Pistols' Punk music group. The punk group wore clothes from a shop called 'Sex' that Vivienne Westwood and her partner Malcolm McLaren opened on the Kings Road, London. They sold leather and rubber fetish goods, especially bondage trousers. Later the shop was renamed Seditionaries. Not long after, Westwood launched alone renaming the same shop as 'World's End'. Westwood was soon translating her ideas into the fresher Pirate and Romantic looks. The collections were innovative, but were spoken of as unwearable, yet so often other designers picked up on ideas she had instigated and soon started anoth er new trend.

In later years as her talent developed, her moods and methods changed. She mastered tailoring techniques combined with flair, frivolity and sexuality creating new looks that others copied. With a long stream of firsts behind her, Vivienne Westwood is now considered to be one of the most innovative designers of the 20th century.

Loads of Hair or No Hair

Punk hair is worthy of mention - A focal point of the punk look was the hair which was spiked as high as possible into a Mohican hairstyle by a variety of means including sugar and water solutions, soaping, gelatine, pva glue, hair sprays and hair gel. It was big hair before 80s big hair became everyday. Often it was coloured pink or green with food dyes. It was intended to startle the onlooker and attract attention. Over bleaching was common and also became deliberate as home methods were initially employed to achieve hitherto unknown effects. An alternative look was to shave areas of the scalp. Both sexes did this. They intended to make themselves look intimidating. Hair was sometimes dyed jet black or bleached white blonde. Eyes were emphasised with black and sometimes cat like eye make up and vampire like lips drew more attention to the face.

Punk Gets Refined - Punk Chic From Zandra Rhodes

Around 1977, Zandra Rhodes the British dress designer, took elements of the punk style and used it in her collections making refined and more elegant versions in bright colours which were more acceptable to the rich and famous. She used gold safety pins and gold chains to connect and decorate uneven hems and slashed holes. The carefully placed holes were edged with gold thread and the hems adorned with exquisite embroidery. She had always coloured her hair with exotic colours and worn it as a form of plumage. Watered down punk chic worked its way to the top end of the market. Versace too, also decorated dresses with large safety pins, most notably a black dress that Liz Hurley wore to accompany Hugh Grant at the premiere of the film 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' in about 1992. Now every fashion shop has torn and distressed clothing items. Many are similar in concept to those originally sported by the first punks of the 1970s. You may also be interested in the page Laver's Law a timeline of fashion style by James Laver. Please do not write to me requesting Punk pictures. I have none. TO TOP OF PAGE

If you are interested in other less conventional trends in fashion you will enjoy this book called Surfers Soulies Skinheads and Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties

It became a true success after Vivienne Westwood that punk became a clothing fashion, who was considered as one of the most innovative designers in the 20'th century, whose style was abundant and varying, and she has introduced subcultures and some punk el ments which e made her "the Mother of Punk". Through her works, she has challenged the old fashion clothes, and crushed the traditional aesthetics; and it is the despise and abandon of old fashion clothes and traditional aesthetics that happened to make these anti-fashion and anti -trends patterns become another new way and fashion, and hence punk clothing style has a great reputation in the world and became a classic style. Even until now, it is still charming for most people. There was another British women clothes designer who was called Zandra Rhodes has modified punk clothing, and also absorbed some punk elements in her designs, and made the punk style presented an exquisite and elegant style through utilizing several shining colors, which made them accepted and identified by more rich people and more famous people, and however it also made the impact force of punk style less than before. She jointed the laces and other slight parts and some holes that tore intentionally with golden safety pins and golden chains, and then stitched the edges of these laces with gold threads with decorating fancy embroideries.