Fashion Identity Essay

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The subject area of this essay is to prove that Fashion provides individuals to manage their identities in the context of their everyday life. To achieve this goal as a background for the discussion will be aiming to discover skinheads’ world point of view and the reason of their behaviour. The meaning of the social selection according to the main essay question and there will be explained how those are connected by showing the meaning of their social class and the style of their everyday being. The methodology used to expand the area of this essay will be two skinhead’s rock songs. One of them is “London Skinhead Crew” performed by music band Booze & Glory and song of polish punk rock band The Analogs named “Techno Era”. These songs perfectly
The band Booze and Glory states that they are ‘Against society and all that crap. This is not a fashion, it is a way of life.’ It is a clean verbal communication with a recipient that fashion has a huge meaning to them and they do not wear clothes to wear, they wear clothes to show themselves, to express themselves, just as Kratz and Reimer says that their identity with a subculture and with specific clothing give them a chance to show who they really are and let others know it straight forward without any ambiguity. Moving forward and comparing it to Barnard. Skinheads’ subculture uses fashion as a ‘weapon’ which they use to state own point of view and doing it ‘without hidden meanings’ (Barnard, 1996). To precise more their outfit purpose it is important to connect to the working-class as clothes as Dr Martens shoes, jeans and flyers jacket is a typical working man style what skinheads picked up exactly from being a workers – lower class. Just as Clarke says: ‘…certain core values of traditional working class culture.’ It was a symbolic attempt to create some aspects of the ‘parent culture’. (1976
Wearing shiny brogues and tonic suits”. According to Clarke’s ‘The Skinheads & the Magical Recovery of Community’ this attachment to subculture is a remnant of the past and an exaggerate, but going the trail of the song it is still a precious thing to skinheads that if you want to be a part of subculture you have to live with a certain meanings and specific order: ‘Years go passing by but we are still about. Against society and all that

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