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Old 04-02-2006, 04:06 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Crowquill's post illustrates the difference between the 70's to the present day.
Punks in the 70's dressed to shock, that was the point. There weren't any rules, it was a case of anything goes. Whatever did the trick.
Eventually people copied from bands like the Pistols, until the whole thing about being punk (as far as dress styles were concerned) lost the initial point.
Ha, I remember when my eldest sister brought home a 'punk', all he was wearing was a scruffy t-shirt, a pair of red skin-tight canvas jeans and doc martin boots. Oh, and he had spikey hair.
Not very menacing admittedly, but back then, a pair of red jeans was shocking enough.

Haha, as an example...check out the knotted handkerchief on his head.
Can't imagine Fenix wearing that now.
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