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Skate punk is a derivative of hardcore fashion, chosen — like hardcore dress itself — with comfort and practicality in mind. Common skate punk clothing items include T-shirts, flannel button-down shirts, hooded sweatshirts, webbing belts, and khaki shorts, pants or jeans. Some punks, especially in Southern California, mirror Latino gang styles, including khaki Dickies work pants, white T-shirts and colored bandanas. Skate punks usually have short hair, often shaved into a buzzcut, and wear little jewelry.
Skate punk is a derivative of hardcore fashion, chosen with comfort and practicality in mind. Common skate punk clothing items include: T-shirts, flannel button-down shirts, hooded sweatshirts, webbing belts, and khaki shorts, pants or jeans.
Some punks, especially in Southern California, mirror Latino gang styles, including khaki Dickies work pants, white T-shirts and colored bandanas. While some skateboarders have long and messy hair, skate punks usually have short hair, often shaved into a buzzcut, and wear little jewelry.
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Every item in the skate punk list earns its place on the board. Khaki shorts, pants and jeans and Dickies work trousers are cheap, hard-wearing and loose enough to move in; flannel shirts and hooded sweatshirts layer and come off without ceremony; a webbing belt has no buckle hardware to dig in during a fall. The wardrobe is hardcore's plain working dress re-tested against a second physical activity — first the mosh pit, then the skate park — and it passes both for the same reason: nothing on it is decorative enough to get in the way.
The Southern California variant shows how a functional style picks up local color. Mirroring Latino gang styles — khaki Dickies, plain white T-shirts, colored bandanas — gave skate punk in its home region a recognizable silhouette that touring and video coverage then exported. The buzzcut and the absence of jewelry stayed constant everywhere, because they belong to the activity rather than the region: hair and ornaments are liabilities at speed, on concrete.
Because it is a derivative of hardcore fashion, chosen with comfort and practicality in mind. Clothing has to survive skating: T-shirts, flannel shirts, hoodies and khaki work pants take falls and pavement without snagging, and little jewelry is worn.
Some punks, especially in Southern California, mirror Latino gang styles, including khaki Dickies work pants, white T-shirts and colored bandanas.
While some skateboarders have long and messy hair, skate punks usually have short hair, often shaved into a buzzcut.