Skinhead Fashion Statement :

Skinheads are easily identifiable by their style of dress and their short hair. However there are diffent styles of Skins, simply because there are different branches within this subculture. We recognize a Skinhead thanks to the way he dresses.

       1.Shoes

The easiest way to recognize a Skinhead is to look at his shoes : Doc. Martens ! Basically, these shoes were used for medicine as orthopedic shoes, then, they became the symbol of the Skinhead movement. One of the biggest successes of the Pop charts in 1969 (a cover of a reggae tube by Nancy Sinatra in 1966) tells about these shoes, precisely in the chorus : "These boots are made for stomping ! " That is to say that these boots are made to stomp and nothing else. "Stomping" is Skinhead's dance where must be stand up and fall his feet heavily on this floor in rythm. The Skinhead girls wear the Monkey Boot because the Doc. Martens don't exist in a small size. 

      The Doc. Martens's shoes :

        

All Skinhead wear these shoes in order to distinguish it, there is a color code for laces :

  • The Redskins : red laces
  • The Neo Nazi and Nationalist : white laces
  • The Skingirl : pink or purple laces
  • The Violent Skin : yellow laces

   2. Hairstyle

All male Skinheads have generally shaved hair, so it's easy to acknowledge them but female Skinhead have two different hairstyles. On the one hand, they have fringe, shaved at back, hair in the neck and fringes on sides and the other hand they have fringe, shaved on the sides, long hair on the top and in the neck and a little tail behind.

 

   3. Sponsors Brands

Skinhead have special clothing. For example for his jackets, they wear Harrington's jacket. But the Harrington's jacket - is use in first by the Mods, then by Skinhead and last, 10 years later, by the Punk - is not a brand yet it is a sort of light cotton jacket who was weared on the american TV show " Peyton Place" (1960) by Rodney Harrington, the main character. That's why this jacket became an icon dress British so it wear by billions of young British. Other coats and overcoats are used by Skin when they are at work (Donkey jacket), at school (Crombies, style of young Jamaican) ... and the Bombers are wear from 1979. The one biggest brand's sponsor is Fred Perry, it's the emblem of this movement. Even if there are other sponsors brands as Ben Sherman for plaid shirt ( that they button up), Lonsdale, Levi's, Donkey and Adidas... But they are not so important like Fred Perry ! 

                           

   

   4. Accessories

They put pins on their jackets to recognize theirs political opinion with different logos :

  • S.H.A.R.P : Skin Head Against Racial Prejudice
  • R.A.S.H : Red and Anarchist Skin Head
  • O.Ï : symbol of a music kind
  • Symbol of two hammers : symbol of working class
  • The cross Nazi : for Neo Nazi Skinhead