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PUNK MOVEMEN T

The English term "Punk" has a derogatory meaning often varies, applying to objects (meaning "trash") or persons meaning ("lazy," "despicable" and also "junk" and "scum.") Is used to how ironic description of the critical substrate or dissatisfaction containing this music.

The punk movement is the counterculture surrounding the punk music and her fans. Usually linked to popular culture by outsiders, punks countercultural practices include a series of codes of behavior, language, dress and themes that have become recurrent and that distinguish them. Its primary means of expression are the concerts of the genre ("scene") and amateur publications ("fanzine").

In the middle 70's new wave of street boys were fed with such hostility and fertilizer created a new musical and social genre: punk. They were mostly poor and with a past full of abuse people.

His first artistic samples were essentially nihilistic. Its creators were in rebellion and anarchy the perfect antidote to the oppression they were subjected. They were some kind of degenerate characters and affiliates to chaos and disorder, that did not worry too much about the consequences of their actions.
Crests, leather jackets, radical ideology and transgressive personality are some of the characteristics that best define the punk movement, who was born as current genre soon became a social and cultural phenomenon.

APPEARANCE

The punk clothing is anti-fashion


Boots are used as a mockery of the military and the forces of public order, can be used in different ways the shoelaces, white and black are antiracists, red and black (anticapitalist), and a host of representative colors.

Pyramids Belt: This represents the mupuche tribe that used pyramids with no more religious and astrological functions this tribe was the first to resist against an empire.

The crest or Mohicans: As its name says it is a tribe of the Mohicans that were extinct when fighting against English rule. The first punk used them to attract attention in England in 1977, but now has several meanings, as a mockery of the Praetorian Guard roma (the helmets with crest)

Straps: It means that we support the proletariat (working class) also depends on the color: White: You fascist, Nazi or right. This is English introduced a group called the London ss. Red: You communist. Black: You are neutral. Black and White (diced): You antifascist and antiracist.

Chain: It represents like most of the people are slaves of the system also means freedom, because when people are thrust into jail they put chains.

The pins: The pins represent the meaning of resistance and rebellion, the primary basis of punk, I'd say either on clothing or skin. Although at one time in England a Punk use the pins on the skin to represent a greater respect for the ideology.

The Tie: The tie is just an uncomfortable garment, symbol of the society against which they fight, simply used as a mockery of the system.

CLOTHING

THE PUNK DRESS


Black or dark colored shirts with aggressive images and logos of their favorite bands. These can be broken, stained, dirty. Among more against tradition are better.

Black leather pants, jeans and ankle casings are perfect to be aggressive and to use the boots out of them.

The tip steel boots are a parody of the boots used by the military, the use untied, dirty and if they have platen later peeled (without the leather covers) is shown for all 'pogos' in which it was .

Women wear skirts as Scottish plaid, black, leather pants and also cased, tied at the waist with big hooks and chains. Black or red, and equal men Sox military boots.

Hair: crests, red, blue, green, shaved women, etc.. These are the kind of 'de-hair' used by Punk in their heads.

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