That skinhead is a very broad and multi-faceted culture, which from Britain late sixties, where she was born, has spread through evolutions, divisions and drifts that have profoundly transformed.

The skinhead movement was born from the seventies as a branch of the punk culture, and both subcultures in the sights of Thatcher, but the skinheads took on an identity stiffer. Among the skinheads of the late sixties and early seventies there was more freedom of interpretation. But with the return, in the eighties, the royalties were already well defined, the width of the straps to the holes of Dr. Martens.

Can not understand why this movement has been associated to the far right, especially in clothing probably because it was seeking a strong and hyper masculine and perhaps for this reason (it seems contradictory from one part) in this movement they are part of many gay, some went for emulation, dressed as some groups like the singer Jimmy Somerville, who was actually gay or Nicky Crane, one of the best-known figures associated imagery skinheads. Was the leader of the British Movement, had openly racist positions and at the same time he was homosexual.

But if you look at the outward appearance, in some ways there is something very gay in the whole thing. They call dandyism from the working class. Fanzine emerges from all this stiffness of clothing canons. Before the men were not so interested in clothes.

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