Partille-Johnny
パルティレ・ジョニー / late 2000s / Style / Subculture Style
A late-2000s Swedish youth look associated with Partille outside Gothenburg and Täby outside Stockholm. Bleached styled hair, slim jeans, visible belts or branded accessories and hair ribbons tied to jeans turned accessible retail clothing into signs of belonging. Because the name combines a place and a person-type, documentation must separate participants' self-understanding from outside ridicule.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Bleached hair swept sideways or raised to make the fringe and crown strongly outlined
- Body-hugging slim jeans and a belt held visibly at the waist
- Narrow hair ribbons or small accessories tied to the jeans
- A clean full look of polo or shirt, light jacket and bright footwear
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- Showing relations among place, age and mass retail in costume or photography about late-2000s Nordic youth culture
- Exhibiting how possessions and hairstyles became signs of belonging before and during early social media
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Verify regional or chat-derived spellings in the source, and do not present an outside slur as the participant's voice.
- Composition
- Show hair, upper body, slim jeans and shoes in one full figure rather than enlarging brand logos alone.
- Material
- Use heavily washed slim denim, piqué polo, a synthetic-leather belt and bright shoes recorded with outdoor phone flash.
- Caution
- Do not infer the personality of Swedish youth from an appearance. Do not add undocumented brands or replace the style name uncritically with the derisive label fjortis.
- Further study
- Partille, Täby and the regional names PJ / Täbb style / Youth clothing consumption in late-2000s Sweden / The gap between self-presentation and the outside label fjortis
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- E-style (E-girl／E-boyスタイル)Same Subculture Style lineage.Compare Partille-Johnny and E-style
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