Like skinheads are really obvious as a subcultural thing, it’s not just having a smooth head lmao (otherwise Patrick Stewart wouldn’t have been considered a sex symbol)
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You do become a serious believer in hats and sunscreen.
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In my own limited experience, there are also clues in tattoos and dress. Bald dude in a polo shirt and jeans? Probably not a skinhead. Bald dude in a white t-shirt, wearing Doc Martens, and covered in tattoos? Possible skinhead.
It doesn’t. It’s an example though.
Didn’t you say,
This is from Wikipedia
A skinhead or skin is a member of a subculture that originated among working-class youths in England, in the 1960s. It soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working-class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the late 1970s. Motivated by social alienation and working-class solidarity, skinheads are defined by their close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing such as Dr. Martens and steel toe work boots, braces, high rise and varying length straight-leg jeans, and button-down collar shirts, usually slim fitting in check or plain. The movement reached a peak at the end of the 1960s, experienced a revival in the 1980s, and, since then, has endured in multiple contexts worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead
And no, they aren’t usually identified with bald heads:
Most first wave skinheads used a No. 2 or No. 3 grade clip guard cut (short, but not bald). From the late 1970s, male skinheads typically shaved their heads with a No. 2 grade clip or shorter. During that period, side partings were sometimes shaved into the hair. Since the 1980s, some skinheads have clipped their hair with no guard, or even shaved it with a razor. Some skinheads sport sideburns of various styles, usually neatly trimmed.
By the 1970s, most female skins had mod-style haircuts. During the 1980s skinhead revival, many female skinheads had feathercuts (The Chelsea, a fringed bob from the front yet from the back it is an undercut A feathercut is short on the crown, with fringes at the front, back and sides.
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