Female Skinheads


My sister was one of the original skinhead lasses back in the day.

She returned to roughly the same style recently when, as a result of chemo* she lost her hair and had to start wearing flat boots cos of side effects with her toenails.

* she’s fine now.
 
There's very little individuality anymore. Every girl looks like a clone of the next one, same for blokes to be fair.

Are you saying that all the people who shaved their heads to various lengths depending on their allegiance to ‘skinhead’, ’suedehead’ or whatever and dressed identically in doc martins, turned up jeans, tartan shirts, braces and maybe a crombie coat were doing so to express their individuality?
 
Are you saying that all the people who shaved their heads to various lengths depending on their allegiance to ‘skinhead’, ’suedehead’ or whatever and dressed identically in doc martins, turned up jeans, tartan shirts, braces and maybe a crombie coat were doing so to express their individuality?

It was a niche thing rather than the masses.
 
A girl in the year above us was into Simple Minds and the Jam, when she was about 16 in 1986-7 she turned up at school with a crew cut.

She was quite an individual to be fair, some people are cool because they don’t attempt to be cool. They’re either ahead of their time, don’t consider what other people do or think, or have influences that 90% of other people aren’t aware of.

There were another bunch of girls who weren’t quite Goths but listened to the Cure and Echo & Bunnymen -they had older siblings who were fans.

Most of the lads were as cheesey as sin and didn’t dare to be different.
 

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