Youth Subculture

It’s difficult to identify youth culture today. The cultural progress is too fast and constantly appears new subcultures. They varied from “Teddy boys” rock groups, “Rockers” from 60th to the “ Skin heads”, “Punks” and modern “Hip-hop” and “Rave styles”.

Street culture has no fixed address and you can’t use map to find it. But I should say that the main routs of modern cultures go from Africa to America and then to other countries and continents.

One of the most wide-spread culture among young people today is hop-hop. It isn’t only a music, it’s style of life which conclude: the music Rap and hip-hop, the dances brake and hip-hop, graffiti, such sports as streetball, snowboarding, this guys have special style of clothes and special slang.

The most noticeable for ordinary people part of hip-hop culture is graffiti – special paintings on the walls. At first city dwellers was against graffiti, they thought that it was eyesore and graffiti was illegal and punishable. But when hip-hop culture was spread it brought graffiti with it.

The other very interesting subculture is Hippy. This people opposed to the traditional styles of society and wears unusual clothes and usually have very long hair. The motto of hippy is: «Do everything you like”. And they follow it.

The third famous subculture is Punk-Rock. On the street you can always recognize Punk-rockers by their colored haircuts and lots of piercing.

Through the years piercing became popular among ordinary people. Nowadays you can see people who have got rings – hanging from ears and pushed through noses, lips and eye brows everywhere.

Top 10 Youth Subcultures

The way we dress now is an amalgamation of years of experimenting with cloth and leather. Here’s a look at those past-time youth cultures that helped inspire the styles of people today.

10. Dandys / Flappers

Way back when the US was young and looked like something from Bugsy Malone with grown-ups, Dandy men and Flapper girls prevailed. Red lipstick, hair plastered to the head with lacquer and sequined dresses were the order of the day for girls, and the men wouldn’t be seen dead in anything but a pressed tweed suit with a bowler hat. The youth of that day hung out in back-street jazz clubs drinking moonshine and playing cards. Knowwhaddamean?

9. Greasers

The Greaser look – which was an product of the British Teddy Boy culture – can be summed up by saying the title of one popular film: Grease. Tight jeans, tight t-shits and slicked back hair was the über cool look for the boys, whereas the girls’ had large but perfectly coiffured hair, ra-ra skirts and lots of girly bows. Back then, it was all about looking cool, juke boxes, milkshake bars and smooching in cars.

8. New Romantic / Glam Rock

All hail the eighties, where hair was big, bangles were bountiful and synthesizers rocked the airwaves. The Glam Rockers were all about colored leggings and leg-warmers, a la Fame, Cyndi Lauper and Paula Abdul, whereas the New Romantics preferred a darker look, complete with black denim, make-up for boys and shiny shoes, like The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.