Sunday Crush – Skinhead Girls

I did have a big crush on Skinhead girls as a teenager, which I still have today. It is not about a particular girl but the style. Styles back then were so strong from Skinhead, Rudies and Mod girls youth tribes today are non-existent. I can pin point the exact moment in time my fascination begun.

It was in the indoor market in town around 1974. I was upstairs in the market having a drink and something to eat (ham sandwich I always had the same) with the family in the café next to a clothing shop called Gwyns very popular with the youth of the time. These two girls just floated pass catching my eye both featuring feather cut haircut and set off this hormonal teenage all a flutter to my heart. I have already mentioned my thing about hair, women’s haircuts in previous blogs.

One of the girls, both older than me, wore some loafers, fishnets stockings or tights with white ankle socks which really caught my eye and wore a short skirt, jacket, a shirt and top it off with braces while her friend was wearing DM boots a denim skirt, Harrington jacket and a polo shirt the skinhead girl look, strong and intimidating. It strange I can remember them so clearly that was the kind of impression they made on me.

Like the dog walk from the same time who I can still picture like yesterday and who I fancied the pants off her. But that was a long time ago and since become a happily married man.

Thinking back, I had no skinhead friends just a few pretenders who had a skinhead haircut because of nasty infestation of head lice and called themselves temporary skinheads. I liked my hair just too much to have it shaved off I was intent on keeping it as long and scruffy as I could. I was constantly told in school to get my hair cut. I owned some loafers, later some DM boots and I wore braces but never was inspired to become a skinhead my braces were just to hold my trousers up.

Intimidating yes, but the whole look was damn sexy, wait a minutes I am talking skinhead girls. There was always more male skinheads than female if you saw a group out and about. Soon skinheads were a sign of right-wing Nazis but not all. Others stuck to the roots of skinhead culture where reggae/ska was king and black and white were welcome my kind of skinheads.