Punk Era- The style

The Style:

The style of the punk genre has changed throughout the years and varies throughout the different cultures.

America:
The typical american punk look consisted of a t shirt, motorcycle jacket and jeans, these were usually worn by american greasers in the 1950's although this is sometimes associated with american rockers. This look made its debut in Britain in 1960's

Britain:

Richard Hell is known as the an innovator of the British punk scene including music and fashion. He was one of the first wear his hair, wear torn and ripped tops with drawings on and they were sometimes held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, the manager of the Sex Pistols credited Hell as the inspiration for the bands look.

Vivienne Westwood's clothing collections are heavily based around the punk genre and during the era she credited Johnny Rotten for being the first to wear the ripped T-shirt look and the sex pistols bassist, Sid Vicious as the first to use safety pins.

The early female punk style resembled Siouxsie Sioux's bondage clothing to Patti Smith scruffy style.

Siouxise Sioux

Patti Smith

Gradually the introduction of tattoos, piercings and metal studded/ spiked accessories became apparent and furthered the typical punk look.
The male hairstyle began as short and choppy but as styles changed the mohawk and even the skinhead  we worn by typically more hardcore scenes.  

When male bands and artist tend to perform they didn't stray from the typical "macho male" persona that was adopted by the rock genre.

However females tend to break away from the earlier conventions of the a punk woman and became a lot more tough and unladylike and borrowed some of the "macho swagger" of the 60's garage bands.

Gaye Advert (Gaye Black)- Bass guitar player for The Adverts.

The Runaways