Skinhead style expressed conservative working-class masculinity amid 1960s crisis

Evidence

Phil Cohen’s influential work on the skinhead and mod youth movements suggested that their origins lay in the economic and cultural crises affecting Britain, and more specifically London, in the working-class districts to the south and the east of the capital in the mid to late 1960s (Cohen, 1972). Characterized by cropped hairstyles, braces, Doc Marten boots, and tight Levi jeans, the skinhead style utilized industrial working-class imagery to produce a conservative masculinity in a period of political, economic, and cultural upheaval. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2981