1983: Should you FIT IN or STAND OUT? | Scene | Vintage fashion clips | BBC Archive
Scene takes to the streets of London, to find out how youth subcultures like punks, goths, rudies, skinheads and new romantics dress to express their outsider status. Should the way they dress really elicit such negative reactions from employers, pub landlords and the more conventionally-attired members of the population? Or should we all learn to be a bit more tolerant?
This clip is from Scene: Who Are You Looking At? Originally broadcast, 27 January 1983.
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I was a goth in 1986 and my friends dad used to shout “there’s a Druid at the door for you “ when I called for her 😂
That’s *such* a _dad_ thing to say 😘😂
Haha, class haha
😄Your friends dad had a sense of humour.Excepting and respecting the change of culture despite mocking but thats ok.
@@brianmorecombe2726 That would have been nice, however that wasn't his attitude towards me sadly.
My friend’s dad called over his shoulder “your worthless associates are here!” Brutal . . .and accurate! 🤣
I used to meet a nun on the bus to college when I was a full on goth in the 80s and we’d have a right good old natter. Then I got a car and I never saw her again, but I’ll never forget that lovely accepting lady. She wasn’t afraid of no goth!
It’s called Catholicism lmao
christianity has a lot of goth in it
She had God in her side 😁
She wasn't a nun, she just liked dressing like a nun 🤔
It’s a shame these sorts of random encounters and conversations with strangers are so rare these days. A lonely world we live in unfortunately.
When we got married in 1983 my wife wore a dark grey and black wedding dress, crimped and backcombed har and face piercings - that was incredibly unusual for a white girl. I wore a grey and black camouflaged suit and a Mohican, the vicar said we were the nicest yet craziest couple he's ever married - all of our friends were goths or punks so it certainly raised a lot of eyebrows! Still married to this wonderful lady and yep - she's still a goth at nearly 60!
oh my... wish to meet you ♡
Goths are timeless ❤️⚔️🕸⛓️🕷🩸🦇🪦🚬⚰️🐈⬛
🥲🖤🖤
So good to hear.
damn, you are so cool
I'm STILL a punk and I'm 50 this year. It makes me feel good to dress like this and look like this. I have raised three kids to adulthood who have never really seen me look any other way. I DID ask them, when they were young, if they were embarrassed by me but always got told "no". None of my kids are punks.
Yep! And that's about the time I first started to dress oddly we'll say! I started junior high that year.
Punk is an attitude not a look.
@@spellbound4383 Absolutely agree with you! I don't know how many younger people came up to me back in the early 90's asking "what should I wear? What bands should I listen to?". My only advice was "dress however you want and listen to whomever you want". Junior high was finally my "daring to go against my mother" time.
@@spellbound4383 Tell that the punks back in '70's wearing mohawk, safety pins...It was a look too. Were you there?
@@willowbrooke1215 it only became a look after the media came up with punk then it became a uniform whereas before is was not . Being so called punk was not about having blue hair etc .
"A person thats invovled in fashion is very fickle, a person thats got style is very clever"
These people don’t have style, they are just following another trend, one which has become so watered down and fetishized in generation Z that it’s not even amusing on any level anymore
It would be interesting to see a "where are they now?" piece on the people in this video. What have they been up to the last 40 years?
Well, for one Steve Strange, who is featured near the end of the video died a year or so ago, I think.
Believe it or not, he died 7 years ago! Doesn't seem that long though 😔
Dole office, boozer or six feet under. Only joking. Would be really interested in seeing that.
Probably shelf stackers at Tesco's.
Well as one of this tribe, I ended up as an Art teacher thank you very much..not that there's anything wrong with shelf stacking, it's good honest work..your implication was meant to be derogatory I'm sure..I'm 62 now, had a full, eventful life, two successful sons and still have my nose piercing and a screw in my ear..how's your life been so different/special? 🤔
There’s always been more violence in the trendy pubs than in the alternative pubs Always has been Simple as that
That's been my experience, too!
Yeap used to be a biker chick never once saw violence in the Rock pubs or Clubs
Exactly it’s always the stuck up places they’re off their tits that’s why
Because the people who frequent alt pubs are nancies
Yep, used to be more punch-ups amongst pissed-up yuppies in trendy wine bars than alternatives.
In the late 70’s and very early 80’s I looked and dressed like the young lady at 6:09 and now I am a _granny_ who smiles at alternative fashion.
I think alternative has now become the norm.
Yes, I saw this from my older perspective and thought "those old ladies were in the Blitz and were young women once, they're probably admiring the look and rememberig their own risky styles"
the girl getting her hair done is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful 😍
She is stunning. I don't think she's English, she has a very slight accent. Maybe Canadian. To be blunt, she's too good-looking to be English.
I'd hold her hand.
I like eccentric, unique styles but I think what they did to her hair made her look like a mad skunk. I hope she grew it out once she worked through her need to screen out people judging her because that detracted from her natural beauty.
@@ajs41 It's a very soft Irish accent, a lot of women sound like that in the East of the country.
@@tomconnolly9895 She's from the north
That girl would look good with any hair style. Exquisite bone structure.
Absolutely. Reminds me of the old school Hollywood actresses.
She's Irish I think.
That's a good chat-up line By the way I love your bone structure 🤣🤣🤣🤣
She's absolutely perfect.
I was a new-wave punk/goth between 1981 and 85. Very enjoyable period of my life and I still keep in touch with a great many of the friends I had back then. I'll be 57 in September and in 2020 I got back in touch with members of my first punk band and we're going to produce an album including some reworking of our old songs. Beautiful!
That sounds wonderful, I love subcultures in general since childhood (I'm only 24). Punk and goth interest me a lot. I'd love to hear your music :)
@@t.castro4493 Thank you man! I hope my band and I will record some new stuff soon. However, I have released some synth wave music if you're interested under the name of Mikotron. I have a playlist on Spotify(:
@@michaelwalls4346 Thank you, I'll check it out later in the day
I'm so pleased I had a look a look at your channel, as a result of your comment, delightful music
A lot of the comments on here don't seem to realise that punk and goth/punk were pretty much two different movements. Original punk was from about 1976 to 1980, then you had new romantics and two-tone/skinheads in the early 80s, and punk/goth started in about 1982 or 1983. Robert Smith of The Cure adopted the goth/punk look at the end of 1982 if I remember correctly.
Gina looks stunning before and after. She seems very nice too. The second look was certainly a lot more extreme but you can tell she's a beautiful girl in both styles.
Agree. She sounds slightly American or Canadian to me, or maybe Dutch.
@@ajs41 I think you might be looking for "glamorous"
Maybe you shouldn’t be distracted by her looks but listen closely to what she says. There is a lot of wisdom in her at that young age already.
@@eshatbereitsbegonnen7313 Thats what I meant by "she seems nice" i.e. she is intelligent, articulate and has depth of character. And yes, she ALSO looks nice.
@@ajs41 She`s Irish.
Those people who look "different" are more apt to actually help you if you need it over the people who look down on them.
You are so true on that score!
Really nice to know that Jason voorhees thinks that.
The 80s was a great time to be young
Now 2022 it's pure misery.
The best
I got love for you if you were born in the 80s.
True. It's proof that you could be poor and still have a good time. People today assume that the only way to have a good life is to be rich. Not correct.
Yes yes yes....
I remember being a rocker back in the day with long hair, leather jacket etc. There was never trouble with the metal/alternative crowd unlike the casuals and townies.
Nowadays (im a youth in these crowds) the alt/metal groups weaved in with minority groups and are quite a diverse and welcoming community, i know a teen musician with the same haircut as the blue and purple haired guy down to the shade. So from my perspective we are using this alt history from the past and progressing and taking those ideas further
Rockers were all about the music, not self indulgent fashion like punk. Tour t shirts and badly embroidered jacket, that was me!
The most metal fans are just normal peoples
Same. We had a dance/chart music nightclub down the street from our metal one, and every weekend there were police vans outside it with folk covered in blood. There was never any trouble with out club. Like, ever! I'm not dissing chart music or dance because I like that stuff too, but the clientele just had a different mindset.
as far as I see, besides metal people, alt folks are pretty much only those who are into LGBTQ and stuff like that in this current era...
@7:55 her beauty is sublime. I was a Goth in the mid 80s and looked pretty much like some of the kids here. Good times!
She is absolutely beautiful I agree
I actually clicked on this to say she looks like a certain Christie Mack lol
She's Irish I think.
Funny how some of the old people saying the pretty girl at 7:55 looked horrible/terrible etc were certainly no oil paintings themselves, Dad always said "If you judge someone solely by how they look take a good hard look in the mirror first.
I've always been the outsider, the misfit, the introvert. Punk (for lack of a better term), was my way of building self-confidence, standing out in the crowd and not fitting in. Back then, it was still shocking for the 'norms ' to see people who didn't fit in, and I took a good few beatings because of my appearance. But I wouldn't have changed to conform. 40 years on I look back on my youth with a mixture of joy and melancholy. Joy for the freedom to express myself, and melancholy for loss of youth culture. We had Punk, Skinhead, Mods, Rude Boys (and girls), Rockers, Metalheads, and every sub-genre inbetween. Great seeing Steve Strange though - a true original taken far too soon.
@@Automedon2 Be true to yourself, always.
Steve Wingate.. amazing, your experience mirrors my own, I was heavily into the music and scene, but it was also a self analysis and a building experience, reaching a level of normalcy but also being my own man and not be part of the crowd.
@@jasperswarp Glad you've shared your experiences. I've always been an outsider, dancing to a different drum, and I think that's what life should be about. If we only get one bite of this apple, I'm not going to waste it following the crowd - I'm just too independent and stubborn. Find the path that suits you, be true to yourself, and try to be as kind, honest, and caring along the way.
there is nothing like yourself millions are like you or me . Do we gabbers look social and normal ?? our Rotterdam Terror Corps or Rotterdam gabber hard as hell does not look normal we look more crazy insane than punks and skinheads mixed with goths still we are with millions everyone belongs to something I belong to the gabber
Great comment,in the present youth looking and probably thinking the same. Even selling "punk", "rock" tshirts in h&m Etc because is "cool".
These people never bothered me at all. I grew up in tbe 80s and was obsessed with thrash metal and hardcore punk and went to many gigs without any issues. It was the jocks and straights that were the trouble makers and occasionally skin heads if there was a rally on or something. Today it's all about tattoos.
The beauty of that one lady is absolutely blowing my mind. Such a gorgeous face. Effortlessly beautiful.
She's absolutely stunning 😍
"And also as a girl going to night clubs and dealing with men, it certainly screened out any man that just seemed to be just interested in me as a sexual figure. He had to also be interested in me as a person because I didn't look just like a pretty girl."
Be different and stand out. Life is too short and enjoy the moment you are living in.
It depends on the kind of fashion you go for though. Clearly punk haircuts are more of an obstacle for certain jobs than say mod or "britpop" haircuts. Perhaps there should be legislation that protects personal appearance from discrimination from employers
@@EclecticoIconoclasta A lot of employees are more open to radical haircuts then they were in the past and the same goes for body piercings and tattoos. So much different to when I was a teenager.
Not in this century. There is a globalist 'look'. Everyone across western countries looks and dresses the same
How about just do what you want instead!?
I class myself as a casual mod. I wear Fred Perry and Ben Sherman shirts, bomber jackets, turn up jeans and either Doc Marten's or Adidas trainers. I also shave my hair every now and then to go for the skinhead look and wear parkas in winter. That being said I don't make my entire life revolve around this lifestyle or the music that mods and skinheads typically listen to. If I hear a song I like then I'll listen to it regardless of the genre or how modern the song is. I also don't limit myself to just wearing the mod and skinhead gear because if I'm only going to the shops then u may as well wear something more comfortable and baggy. The majority of kids have always followed the latest fashion trends but it's so refreshing when you see a kid dressed differently or with their hair cut and coloured different from everyone else. Plenty of people try to stand out with just the hair but without the music taste or unique fashion then you just blend into the crowd again.
I'm over 70. I remember when you couldn't get in places just for wearing jeans. Now, I can't remember the last time I wore trousers. About 15 years ago I self-referred to therapy re trying to prevent drinking and driving, and maybe I didn't understand my sexuality and drank because of that. The best insight I got was the conflict between feeling I wasn't the same as other people, yet I had a fear of standing out, or being noticed, two incompatible beliefs. I began to accept that other people were not that different from me, and began to defend myself when criticised for being different: my anxiety dropped through the floor. I can go to bars, wear something different each week, and feel I have my own style, as Steve Strange said.
I was a punk from '77 and morphed into a goth in the 80s, it was a natural progression tbh as punk had gone a bit samey. The thing about those days was the amazing music, so much to love - punk, post punk, goth, indie, industrial, ska and so much more. Punk definitely changed me as a teenager, my whole outlook on life, especially with all the Anti-Nazi stuff (Rock Against Racism) etc. It made me more politically aware and less willing to accept the status quo. It was all about an attitude and that is something inside that you never lose. Happy days for sure!
Gina's face immediately brought to mind Grace Kelly.
The friends that do great with grannies are lovely 😅🥰
I was a cure head living in a very small town in Ireland. I stood out like a beacon. I loved the look & I could relate to their music big time. On top of that, a few years later, I came out & I was literally the only gay in the village 😂 Everyone should be able to enjoy expressing themselves
Degenerate
I used to be a full on goth - people used to attack me in the street as a teenager , However I’ll be the first to admit I was conforming to a style .
80s goth is my favourite! I was born in 1981 and started the Goth style and lifestyle at age 15. Still a Goth and always will be. Love this 1983 punk/ Goth documentary 🕸🖤🦇
Same here. 80s Goth. I also enjoyed this documentary.
The first half of 1983 is the greatest time ever for pop music in my opinion.
I was a Goth from 1982 onwards, huge Bauhaus fan...loved the gay clubs and pubs in London like The Black. Cap because we didn't get any hassle there....used to get so many weird looks and muttered comments especially as I had two kids then too (who I dressed 'normally') lol...my hubby at the time was a hairdresser in Knightsbridge, later Mayfair and did the hair for fashion shows like Zandra Rhodes and celebrities....great times ... Hard to believe it's so long ago now, feels like yesterday...
They are playing live on the 27th of August in the north of Portugal, along with Iggy Pop, seriously, look up Vilar de Mouros festival, you can still get tickets at 40€. Their Resurrection tour in 1998 was phenomenal.
I am 60 American I shaved my head in 1979 my father blew a gasket! lol! Always been my own style. I now have a modified mohawk color changes with my mood. Honestly I feel that society norms have changed to a point where I don't feel that I am odd or singled out. I do live in Portland Oregon and there are many people farther out of the "norm" than me
Hello how are you doing?
'Gina, looks like a nice girl, but she's about to change all that'. Bloody hell!
As a 21 year old in 1983, I can attest that many who adopted more extreme looks were actually trying to fit in.
Nowadays young people too. Everybody is trying to fit in anyway
In their own group. That's a difference.
She looks absolutely gorgeous!
Free free Isreal.
@@Future-Classic-Comics Aye, you love the ole genocide, don't ya? You're sick in the head.
@@Future-Classic-Comics Eres mala gente.
@@Future-Classic-Comics Imbecile.
Yes she does 🇮🇱🇮🇱
This is fast becoming my favourite KZhead channel.
me too
Agreed
The girl getting the makeover sounds Irish.Good old Steve Strange of Visage.
Me tf too
The good old days when the BBC was worth the licence fee.
The 80’s were not as universally “alternative and individualistic” as some of these videos would have us believe. When I finally pulled the plug and went my own way in the world of punk it literally drew ire from everyone, even other punks. But wasn’t that the idea, just be me no matter what. I’ve tried to keep that within myself since then.
Mid 80s Punk became very fast a part of fashion industry. I remember the late 70's and early 80's as the nicer time when we were still designing our clothes ourselves and there weren't any magazines that had commercialized the whole thing. A lot of people later let themselves be influenced by the industry how a "real punk" should be dressed... For me Punk was more the kind of thinking than how to dress…
I was into punk and psychobilly, I was a bit of a goth too, and I still love all the music. I got right into the rave scene in late 80s, loved it. I’m mid 50s now and still look a bit ‘alternative’ and still wear some of my old psychobilly - rockabilly clothes now
Also bit of mod skinhead emo new romantics and metal
@@jimmytorrisi6926 7:50 - 8:02 - 8:05 Good heavens... Beautiful punk girl. Love her punk hairstyle
@@jimmytorrisi6926 r u schizo ?
I'm only 32, so I wasn't around for the conception of the alternative looks, but I did definitely identify with it in secondary school. The idea of weeding out the disingenuous was a key factor, and it became easy to find those who I knew I could relate to. I grew my hair long, and died it black. At one point I even got dreads put in professionally (obviously something I would not think of these days). It was a really painful process, and took a few hours, and when I went to school, I was told by the staff that I wouln't be able to see my friends, and I'd have to spend my schooltime in the library in isolation. They said I would "inspire" others to do the same. The crazy thing was, there was a teacher with dreads, and a boy in 6th form too. After one day of sitting in the library by myself, I felt I had to cave so that I could see my friends. I took the next day off and my mum helped me comb the dreads out. I tell you, if it hurt getting them put in, the pain was amplified tenfold upon taking them out. I went through a lot of conditioner. I could have just cut all my hair off, but I didn't want to lose that part of me. No regrets though. I found my people by being freed from societal expectations of appearance.
@@ashykitty7923 I know, right?
My mom and dad were Goth and then transitioned into Punk and so I’ve always been a part of the weirdo group. I love it. I do however have to tone it down for work because I work with the elderly and I’m really hoping that as generations get older that’ll change and we’ll get to a point where it doesn’t matter what you look like as long as you do a good job.
Thanks to Steve Strange for explaining the concept of "having style" because now I can say categorically that I'm not just unfashionable, I also have no style. In that respect, I hope the subjects in this video were grateful they are least fit in *somewhere*.
with a name like yours, you'd think you'd understand, it's more about where you don't fit in. free west papua
I was 13 back then seems like a different world in many ways now....
I remembered once a BBC documentary in the 80s of a South Asian girl in the U.K. dressing and having her hair like a punk and interviewing her with her mum, who was in traditional dress. It was so eye opening to see that. I wish I knew what the documentary was called.
OMG... Did I ever stand out! During the '80s... I was the only one in my neighborhood to go flat out punk rock.. shaved head, different color hair piercings clothing I'd do it now if I still could! Don't let anyone try to change you no matter what it's your drum beat it how you like!
Imagine that feeling just in ex Yugoslavia. I feel U. : )))
Yep, really fancied a boy when I was a goth and he told my friend he’d be interested if I changed the way I looked. No mate.
@@meelodeshmeeelo2034 The golden rule, don't change for anyone follow your heart, those who matter don't mind as long as you are healthy and happy, those who want you on the condition you conform to their "standards" are not worthy of your time and don't matter.
You could do it, Even the coloured hair is nice to have and its so much more accessible now
She looks like a movie star. Wonder what happened to her later on. I was a punk myself back in those days. Great time. It's both looks and attitude, I think. Still a punk at SOON 60, but not in the same way as back then. Still. Punk Never Dies.
OMG I loved everything about this ! Not just the style but the look back at history and the way people were able to convene and be unique without any mindless Instagram or phone use in sight !
Dont be mistaken, as a gen x i can tell you if we'd have had the technologies of today back then, we would have lapped it up! As i do today! Now i can still keep contact with old mates from all corners of the world, see what each of us is up to, video calls...its nothing short of brilliant! And we can be on Instagram and still be unique!
80/90’s the last tremendous beautiful spontaneous decades ❤❤❤
In some ways this highlights just how much we've moved on, and in others, we're stuck in the 50s. The idea that we STILL, even now, need a bloody suit to be taken seriously is frankly, absurd.
Sorry but I totally disagree with your statement about suits. Isn't the whole take away from this that deciding how you dress is a statement both about yourself and how others will react? Every century has understood this up to now, and we wish to believe differently - that if you dress like a slob with a t shirt and jeans you're just as serious as a bloke in a suit? It's simply not true. Garments frame the person and set the framework of a place or environment. The goth at the end said it, he feels superior to all the sheep. The girl having a haircut said it, she wants men to see beyond her appearance and look closer to her personality, she wants to challenge. The way we dress is a trigger in society - either inclusive or exclusive - but it is always meant to effect something. Don't go fooling yourself thinking you look just as professional wearing trackies as you would in a Savile Row suit. When you dress, you make a conscious choice.
@@WL-ld6dz There is an in-between though. As a woman I can wear an open necked top, no tie. my top and bottoms don't need to match and I'm smart, but men are still constricted by this collar and tie thing which hasn't existed that long in human history. Men's fashion never seems to move forward. Its stuck in the early 20th Century. I wonder how long for.
@@WL-ld6dz no you have missed the point. You are judging people that choose not to wear a suit and choose to wear something more comfortable like t-shirt and jeans as a “slob”. Do you consider yourself a slob if you are ever not wearing a suit? How do you define “serious”? Good at your job? Ambitious? I work in programming and almost nobody wears a suit, and yet most people are “serious” about their job, ambitious, and very nice people. It is possible to be well presented no matter the style of clothes you wear.
@@martinhawes5647 The point is this: a vast majority of social occasion take on a uniform. Funeral, wedding, graduation and still many many jobs: railway, post office, sport events, politics, catering etc etc. If you turned up to any of these events wearing a t-shirt and jeans it would be considered inappropriate, rude or disappointing. Just imagine a game of football with bunch of blokes wearing what ever shirt they each fancy... Disappointing for all right? (and i'm no fan of the sport). People use to understand this far better a few decades ago than they do now, except in some countries where this is still very much the case. A good example is Japan. A vast majority wear a uniform to whatever position they hold, and as a result they embody their role. They identify with what they do and they take pride in it. The casualisation of the work place comes to us from America, and as you rightfully point out the tech industry which you belong to is the spearhead of this movement. I'm not challenging that it exists but what I can say from day to day observation is that anonymous people working behind phones, who wear no particular attire for work and which we let alone see - are tremendously less engaged in their work than in industries where there is face to face and where people endorse 'a role' through their attire and work responsibilities. To answer your initial question, I do not feel like a slob when I wear a shirt, but I would certainly do so if I turned up to any of the above events with one on my back. Why? Because I differentiate between the occasion and because there is a time and place for everything. And that is what some people, I believe, erroneously wish to challenge. They want everything to be the same event. And as a result they return home from work, still wearing the same clothes than they did when having breakfast and throughout the whole day - and they don't stop working even though the day is finished. There is no cut-off, and they continue replying to emails late into the night, allowing their work life to encroach on their personal life.
I hate suits. Always have. They are stuffy and turn people into clones. They are unoriginal and hide the individuality of each person. They only look 'smart' because we are told they do, for the purpose of control. No other reason. Appearance is subjective to the individual, not objective to all. If its about 'fitting in'... I would ask 'fitting in to what?' Look at politicians, they all wear suits and they are the most risible people on the planet (other than rich CEOs). I wouldn't want to fit in with those types. A nice, friendly personality and a level of self awareness. That's how you fit in. Unfortunately, quite a few people out there are never going to have those qualities...
What a great clip showing just what it was like in the 80s as a goth or alternative dresser. It’s still a challenge to wear what people call “weird” but I think it more accept now.
@kyfaydfsoab where I live being goth is not accepted and I get called weird.
"I'm just a bit conservative really" "Why?" "Just always have been, y'know 🤷🏻♂️" Hahah absolutely brilliant, you couldnt write that level of comedy.
I felt a bit sorry for him when he said "sorry" though 💗
Nothing wrong with that though? Some people just are in their personal sphere. Plus he seemed fine with an 'each to their own' attitude.
@@Gloamy17 it's just funny how conservative means 'resistant to change', and he says he's that way because he has been like that previously. Captures the whole big brain logic of generic conservatism in a lovely little sound bite.
He'd nothing to apologise for. I'm as liberal as they come.
I was 14 and in high school when they made this and just becoming a New Romantic/Goth and I still look like it now. 💚
It’s so sad that some of these people have now passed away :( loved the style!
I think they all look great! I dress alternative and always get weird looks or someone laughing at me. Don’t change for anyone
Loved hearing the lady having her head shaved and her opinions! It’s a fascinating video!
I was 17 in 83. Metal Heads, preppies,Newwavers ,Sporter. Every one got along
That Gina gal was simply STUNNING! 😮
She’s stunning!
I was born in 1977 and when I was 7 I was at a wedding where two of the guests were punks. They were so cool and mellow and me and the other kids had a great time with them. One of them bought us all some crisps 😊
@kyfaydfsoab nope Gen X
Fantastic bit of film. Lovely clip of Steve Strange though, sorely missed.
1983 the year I left school, you had New Romantics, punks , mods , rockers , skinheads, goths , great days
It's odd that people still had these strong opinions about punk style as this is from 1983 and these kids would be part of the goth era that ran alongside the new romantic explosion (see also Steve strange) ...which is six years after the punk thing blossomed...guess everything moved slower back then.
Well, I think punk/goth was regarded as a different movement to punk itself. You had punk from 1976 to 1979, new romantics from 1979 to 1983, and then this punk/goth movement from 1983.
@@ajs41 thems some hard borders you've defined there..punk/goth from 83 you say?..siouixsie and the banshees formed in 76🤣..and new romantic era went in 83 did it?..Duran's reflex hit top of American charts in 84, Spandau ballets thru the barricades was 1985 number one hit...as I said,all these sub cultures sublimed into each other and as such putting up fences is a pointless exercise .
Brilliant . I wonder how many are still with us.
Fantastic! I wonder how many reverted to suburban lives and had kids etc and I’m guessing some still have a punk 2022 look and are probably living in Brighton,Bristol or Berlin….
i see plenty of punks in my home city (birmingham), looking very much like those in this video
55 I still go to rebellion festivals.
"Style is something you can't buy, fashion you can buy" Steve Strange ❤️❤️
LOL just brill. Im also a ex goth; circa 1985..crimped hair, using sugar and hot water to style it. dying any clothes I liked black or shades of grey and I loved Siouxsie and the Banshees..I remember shaving the side of my head and opened my bedroom door to my Dad and said to him "look what I did!", his eye roll is ingrained in my memory.
I actually remember watching this, the one thing I don't miss about those days is the smoking in pubs, I was the only one who didn't smoke
Me also. + people presumed I smoked because I was a punk. I've always hated people smoking around me.
What an interesting video! Thanks for posting BBC!
Wow the lady getting her haircut is absolutely enchanting 😍
It's amazing how many totally different and competing fashion trends were on the go at the same time. You wouldn't compare goths to punks to skinheads to new romantics, but they all co-existed. And by around 1987 or so, all of those were gone.
Plus the biker kids I was one of them.
Now you have roadmens gangs and drill music...
How refreshing to hear people who are able to talk and complete entire sentences without uptalking even once.
Translation: "Here's a backhanded compliment, but I'm really having a go at modern youth because I'm losing relevance in a changing world"
@@Syklonus Syklone, it shows Linguistics is not one of your interests. And you do sound like one of those people who haven't got the faintest idea what Linguistics is or what it is about.
At 0:02, that Black punk with the orange mohican chasing the other fella is my brother Luke (R.I.P. bro).
How is miss the 80's - the golden decade. London was the most exiting place that time.
These days, I stand out from the crowd because I don't have tattoos and a tight fade haircut. Feels good.
Not all back then either, had tattoos or a tight fade haircut! I never did , all i had was my dad's old workboots( docs were way too expensive) cheap jeans, hand me down tees and a charity shop faded old leather jacket. And i simply had short hair. Before punk. So unknowingly, i just fell into the subculture! You do you, thats real punk.
The 70s and 1980s fashion and punk was Smart and beautiful 😍
This is incredible. Love the bbc! That job interview scene cripples the psyche.
I was 7 in 1983, years later i was always inquisitive seeing the punks and glamorous women when i was in town or in the back of a Cortina
Steve Strange is right, I know people that could wear a potato sack and still look glamorous or smart, it is the way that they carry themselves. I'm definitely not in that category.
"fashions fade, style is eternal" Yevs Saint Laurent, I think Steven Strange is trying to say.... but even at that, was the question about fashion or style?? also, what was he rebelling?? he might think rebelling, but all i say is "deprived of attention at home"
@TUbIuyola ?? Yves Saint Laurent said it. not me.... are you asking me that question? .......or Katie??
Me starting to wear Vintage outside now, I mainly wear 1960's-1970's, so many people just look or stare at me. 😂😂😂
I mostly wear 50s clothes and people stare at me lots, too. You get used to it after a while.
6:26-6:53 Some of the realest talk I've ever heard regarding style.
The personality matters more. If your appearance is a genuine reflection of that then great. If not then what are you apart from an empty shell. Character over couture.
it doesn’t matter if your standing out or fitting in, just be yourself, never try to be something your not for others sake
Never dress for someone else, always dress for yourself, Miss the 80's it's so boring in 2022, no one looks indevidual enymore 😢
I remember walking into The Great Gear Market on Kings Road and Bellagios Dead (Bauhaus) was playing loud through the speakers. Punk Rockers were hanging around the bar just being punks. I remember one Punk guy feeding a rat on his shoulder. It was an amazing feeling just being there. A treasured memory.
Some of the irony of punk was that by trying to stand out so much, a lot of them ended up looking the same, the whole thing where people would spit at you at punk gigs if you were wearing a jumper or a suit and tie is absurd and just attacks the whole notion of punk ethos.
Love this channel
Standing out eventually becomes fitting in
You beat me to it man lol I just commented the same thing. Isn't it weird how goth alternative styles is now the norm and especially in the LGBT community it's how you fit in ?
To all the goths and punks from the 80s here, I'm 27 and proud to carry on the torch.
I loved the last guy in black Be unique be you ❤️
0:53 The good old traditional pub landlord.Not allowing people to come to their pub looking different from anyone else DESPITE causing NO trouble.Its the same stinking attitude with the same or similar people that went on for years later.I bet if that was now,they`d be desparate to allow them as most pubs are desparate for trade.
Sweet little memories...
I wish I lived in those days. With its ups and downs. Its better than todays world. People thought for themselves.
I was part of the sudden rush of interest in the early 2000's. I found that most people within the subculture found it liberated them from a life of the mundane. When you look and the physically and mentally rotten individuals at the end of the video, you're reminded why it mattered. I have massive respect for anyone who still moves in those circles. I unfortunately became like everybody else... just another ugly cog in the tax machine.
STEVE STRANGE ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼 one of a kind and VISAGE he never faded to grey.
Fade to grey socks.
Good one 👍
This is quite amazing, I didn't live those times and I'm just 18, but I really love these 80s punk styles, that generation absolutely made a huge change in every sense of our nowadays culture and art. Most of people might think I'm crazy if I say that I would absolutely take inspiration in these looks, but I think they are incredibly awesome, and after all, it is always better to be genuine, unique and different than just being normal, average and boring. Art is with no doubt the best way to enjoy life
Why it is crazy? Your generation sucks
I was a punk late 70s early 80s before becoming a skinhead about 83 onwards. I still go to punk and skinhead gigs to this day. I think I grew up in the best times for British subcutaneous the 70s 80s also the best music
That beautiful lady is so wise too, Absolutely crazy, her face is impeccable!!!
Punk is one of the best styles ever existed, changed everything so, so avangard.
It's sad that society wants us to dress they way they prefer. Fashion is a fad. Personal style is your personal right. I love wearing the clothes I wear, and I don't care if others don't like it. I don't tell them what to wear, so why should they tell me. I'm not a punk, by the way, I just wear black plimsolls, black jeans, black t-shirts and long hair. And I have done for many years.
I was just an ordinary kid back in 80's and never got to punk society but like they style and music.
Being into Spear of Destiny was my 'thing' that meant I wasn't one of the casuals or townies as they are affectionally called. It really was a special time for me. The other night around a mate's house listening to the (NOW) music compilation hits. About half way thru, 'Do you believe in the Western World started to slowly build up. We had been drinking lager, too. It really did bring back the memories and how my mate was more 'into' the majority of the hits on there...
When you stand out, you get accepted by a different group of people, so are you really standing out when you still fit in? Just be you, and the right people will be in your life.