skinheads

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a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism

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As a symbol of working-class culture, it was the original skinheads – before the term equated to the far right – who first picked up on the 1460s. Source: Internet

Female skin with 1960s extensions Female skinheads generally wear the same clothing items as men, with addition of skirts, stockings, or dress suits composed of a ¾-length jacket and matching short skirt. Source: Internet

From the late 1970s, male skinheads typically shaved their heads with a No. 2 grade clip or shorter. Source: Internet

Highly regionalised and excluded by society's moral norms, skinheads were tainted in the mid 1980s by tabloid hysteria of a fringe and violent far-right elements representing extreme nationalism. Source: Internet

Brown, 2004 This shift in reggae's lyrical themes created some tension between black and white skinheads, who otherwise got along fairly well. Source: Internet

Many punks wear a hairstyle known as a mohawk or other spiked and dyed hairstyles; skinheads have short-cropped or completely shaved heads. Source: Internet

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