Subculture Style
サブカルチャー・スタイル
Dictionary entry
- Zoot Suit 1930s–1940s / Style
The earliest street style: suits with wildly exaggerated shoulders and pegged trousers, by which Black and Mexican-American youth asserted their existence in a discriminatory society.
- Teddy Boys 1950s– / Style
Working-class youth appropriating Edwardian upper-class dress — postwar Britain's first youth subculture and the prototype of all that followed.
- Mod late 1950s–1960s / Style
Rebellion through refinement — slim Italian suits, scooters and modern jazz — completing the marriage of consumerism and youth culture.
- Hippie Style 1960s–1970s / Style
Made the counterculture visible by refusing ready-made clothes — handwork, folk dress and secondhand mixed — bringing DIY and eclecticism into fashion.
- Goth Fashion late 1970s– / Style
The aesthetics of black dress born from post-punk music, borrowing Victorian mourning and horror-film signs to make darkness a communal style.