skinheads- the skinheads grew out of "hard mods" and were considered to be a subculture by the late 60s. Skinheads were "aggressively proletarian, puritanical and chauvinist...(55). Skinheads were characterized by "cropped hair, braces, short, wide levi jeans or functional sta-prest trousers, plain or striped button-down Ben Sherman shirts and highly polished Doctor Marten boots" (52). The skinheads drew from two incompatible sources, west indian immigrants and white working class culture.
