Punk style in clothes

The punk fashion trend arose at the turn of the heyday of hippies and the desire to resist them. Young people were tired of “loving peace and harmony”; they wanted protest, self-expression, shocking. In contrast to people of color and not without the help of fashion designers who foresaw the widespread popularity of the protest mood, the punk style came into fashion and is rightfully considered one of the brightest in history.

Key features of the direction

Punk style is bright shocking haircuts, hairstyles and hair colors, metal, a lot of rivets and pins, deliberately aggressive sexuality, worship of subcultural rock bands, black color, piercings. Everything that is not included in the concept of glamor, femininity, nobility and grace can be found in this genre.

In general, the word “punk” translated from English means “scum”, “garbage dump” and similar. To go along with this, the first punks really stank, spoke dirty, and looked like homeless people.

Only in the 70s of the last century did Vivienne Westwood begin to create fashionable items in this style. The appearance of marginalized people has become cleaner, their clothes have become more expensive and of better quality. Although it was possible to make something at home - You just need to cut up your jeans, a T-shirt, add metal to your look, dye your hair a bright color and add a mohawk.

Style is inseparable associated with the development of musical trends in rock, whose adherents became the idols of millions of punks around the world. In addition, representatives of the subculture often rebelled against the political system.

Characteristic features of the style:

• torn, battered clothes;
• careless haircuts and hairstyles, hair dyed in bright colors;
• rough shoes;
• many metal decorative parts;
• leather goods, including clothing and accessories;
• cuts on things and fastening them with safety pins.

It is believed that punk is not a style, but a philosophy of life. It is impossible to become a representative of the rock movement without realizing that life is protest and pain.

Basics of creating a women's punk ensemble

The image of a badass girl hanging out with real punks is not difficult to come up with. For this it is necessary “turn on” aggressive sexuality, choose torn grunge clothes, make a bright hairstyle.

For this you need, for example:

1. Dye your hair acid color. Pink, blue, white, dark blue and other unnatural colors are suitable. It will look harsher if you don’t wash your hair for several days and don’t trim split ends for a long time.
2. Wear fishnet tights. Let there even be holes, ties, arrows somewhere. Ultra-short denim shorts or a miniskirt look great with them.
3. Buy black leather jacket. It's great if the item is shabby and used. You can paint it with acrylic paints, cut it and connect it with pins, glue rivets, pyramids and other punk attributes.
4. Add oversized T-shirt or sleeveless vest into the image You can remove the sleeves, tie a knot on the stomach, make cuts with pins, paint, draw something with ballpoint paste. Sloppiness is welcome, handmade is exclusive.
5. Select accessories. There is a huge scope for imagination here. Leather belts with spikes and plaques, suspenders hanging on the sides, wristbands, collars, chains with skulls or blades or just chains, a lot of safety pins, pendants, and aggressive metal elements are used.
6. Makeup in punk style. Usually it's a lot of black. First of all, you need a deep smokey eye, eyelashes, red or acidic lipstick.

Basic punk clothing

First of all this biker jacket. A leather item can be decorated with metal paraphernalia, trimmed with rivets, aluminum plates, and zippers. It is possible to paint on the back in the best traditions of punk style.

Ripped jeans or short shorts are quite suitable wardrobe items. The latter can be worn with holey black or fishnet tights.

Oversized T-shirt with rock slogan or print. You can try to draw something yourself. Skulls, representatives of hell, are welcome. The imagination has room to work. If desired, the T-shirt can be replaced with a hoodie or sweatshirt. By the way, the hood must be “released” outside over the jacket.

Leggings. Leather, leopard, and acidic options fit perfectly into the theme.Aggression and sexuality, as they are. Tight leather pants, by the way, will perform the same function.

Checked trousers. A bright representative of the punk style. Contrasting options are welcome - yellow-green, red-black, white-blue and others. If desired, a regular short flared skirt and a corset can be plaid.

Plaid shirt. A basic flannel model will suffice. This item is worn either over a T-shirt or tied at the hips.

Genre elements: shoes, accessories, details

Glamorous shoes have no place in punk. It dominates here rough models, most often laced, with rivets, hooks, pyramids, chains, metal “hell” decor. Martin boots, ankle boots, and “bastards” are suitable. Denim or black textile sneakers fit well into the style concept.

There are no special guidelines for bag styles. The main thing that there was no glamor and pink-vanilla notes. A leather city backpack, a small mail carrier, a shopper, decorated with rock paraphernalia and metal will do.

Accessories are required. Chains, skulls, spiked collars, leather and metal bracelets, etc. I would especially like to mention earrings and piercings in the nose, eyebrows, and navel. Most adherents of the trend welcome tattoos.

Modern punk style

It is believed that in 2020 this is just an imitation of it, a fashion trend. It is enough to add a quality item in this genre to your image to be bright and shocking. Fashion couturiers are clever in their creations combine lace, tulle, chiffon, silk with leather and denim. “Low shockingness” is what designers want to achieve. Versace, Fendi, Saint Laurent, Mango, Valentino, Christian Louboutin and, of course, the legendary Vivienne Westwood can boast of bright collections in style.

Interesting! There are several punk styles. The most popular are cyberpunk, grunge, gothic, ska, emo, and glamour. Each is characterized by “its own” clothing and paraphernalia, and has “its own” philosophy of life.

Many celebrities use the genre and its details not only in performances, but also on the red carpet. Among them Pink, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Taylor Momsen and many others. In Russia, the movement is often associated with the work of the Gas Sector group and Yuri Khoy, and our glamorous punk stars are not particularly fond of it.

Unfortunately, the real adherents of the movement are almost lost to history.