Welcome to my blog. I am a gay skinhead and a SHARP. I am also an author of skinhead books and my favorite author is Richard Allen, and no I don't style my writings after his books. My characters are as real as I can make them in my mind and all my books try to show my feelings against racial, sexual and religious hate. Being a skinhead is not just being a lout although that does help in a fight, but upholding a creed and brotherhood established by working class youth in the late 60's.
1/3/11
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If you read my profile you will see I show Colorado and Cairns as my place of residence. I live in Cairns Australia but own property in Colorado City CO in the US. It's only a plot of land as an investment but hey, I consider myself a Colorardian as much as an Australian. So any skinheads or lovers of skinheads from Colorado especially Colorado City please contact me.
When will the media realise skinheads are not WP/Nazi youths out to kill and maime. Skinheads are working class youth who come together to support each other where the Government had failed. WP/Nazi elements have hijacked the skinhead look and used it for their own purposes. They are not true skinheads, they are imposters and dangerous ones at that. Skinheads are not racially provoked, they are racially integrated.
The original skinhead movement developed from the West Indian music and culture and it is still part of the brotherhood today. Their music is Ska, Reggae, Oi and 2Tone, the beat of the Indies. Their mode of dress came originally from the docklands of East London where most were born and spread worlwide. The West Indian dock workers wore their pants short (usually tucked into the boots) and their boots high as they worked unloading the boats. Braces were the sign of a working man. Work man's clothing were rough woolen or worsted pants, similar shirts or heavy cotton drill, donkey jackets or leather jerkins and hob nailed boots. Rubber soles took a few more years to enter the wook boot stocks. Braces were of leather or pants held up by strong wide leather belts or just sturdy rope. Jeans were just starting to make a fashion statement as they were still regarded as work pants by many.
The start of the skinhead movement was born out of unemployment, povety and the changes sweeping Britain at that time. The post war era when youth decided that the life of their parents was not for them. For those who could afford it, fashion became important but for the unemployed youth, hand-me-downs of fathers or brothers work clothes or ex army uniforms were all they had. It spurned a culture which exists today, where others fell by the wayside, proudly displaying its working class roots for all the world to see. The progression into a skinhead style took several years and the 80's saw the movement take on a look and a pride in their brotherhood. The traditional skinhead now has a fashion of its own; a shaved head or close cut hair, bleachers, usually Levi 501's, Polo shirt in squad colours again usually Ben Sherman or Fred Perry, sometimes a botton down colar shirt from Ben Sherman for a Saturday night on the town, Doc Martin or Underground boots (steel capped), braces ( elastic from 1" to 2" width) matching the polo or boot laces and finally an MA1 either olive green, navy or marone. Black is usually worn by 'boneheads' (WP/Nazi). This is the traditional uniform of a skinhead but many are now opting for the Scallie look of track suit and sneekers (a look I detest).
Many skinheads are classed as soccer louts and this is true in many cases. Soccer is the national sport of the UK and a rumble the second most important sport for a skinhead. When both combine it is the highlight of a skinhead week. Why to rumble? Why not, it's a way of ridding themselves of pent up fraustrations of the ever increasing povety unemployment brings, or social pressures of low paid work and unending boredom. Please don't get me wrong, some skinheads are employed in good jobs and earn a decent living but they are still skinheads from their youth and they have a mindset when dressed in their gear and with their mates. Long live the BROTHERHOOD.
The original skinhead movement developed from the West Indian music and culture and it is still part of the brotherhood today. Their music is Ska, Reggae, Oi and 2Tone, the beat of the Indies. Their mode of dress came originally from the docklands of East London where most were born and spread worlwide. The West Indian dock workers wore their pants short (usually tucked into the boots) and their boots high as they worked unloading the boats. Braces were the sign of a working man. Work man's clothing were rough woolen or worsted pants, similar shirts or heavy cotton drill, donkey jackets or leather jerkins and hob nailed boots. Rubber soles took a few more years to enter the wook boot stocks. Braces were of leather or pants held up by strong wide leather belts or just sturdy rope. Jeans were just starting to make a fashion statement as they were still regarded as work pants by many.
The start of the skinhead movement was born out of unemployment, povety and the changes sweeping Britain at that time. The post war era when youth decided that the life of their parents was not for them. For those who could afford it, fashion became important but for the unemployed youth, hand-me-downs of fathers or brothers work clothes or ex army uniforms were all they had. It spurned a culture which exists today, where others fell by the wayside, proudly displaying its working class roots for all the world to see. The progression into a skinhead style took several years and the 80's saw the movement take on a look and a pride in their brotherhood. The traditional skinhead now has a fashion of its own; a shaved head or close cut hair, bleachers, usually Levi 501's, Polo shirt in squad colours again usually Ben Sherman or Fred Perry, sometimes a botton down colar shirt from Ben Sherman for a Saturday night on the town, Doc Martin or Underground boots (steel capped), braces ( elastic from 1" to 2" width) matching the polo or boot laces and finally an MA1 either olive green, navy or marone. Black is usually worn by 'boneheads' (WP/Nazi). This is the traditional uniform of a skinhead but many are now opting for the Scallie look of track suit and sneekers (a look I detest).
Many skinheads are classed as soccer louts and this is true in many cases. Soccer is the national sport of the UK and a rumble the second most important sport for a skinhead. When both combine it is the highlight of a skinhead week. Why to rumble? Why not, it's a way of ridding themselves of pent up fraustrations of the ever increasing povety unemployment brings, or social pressures of low paid work and unending boredom. Please don't get me wrong, some skinheads are employed in good jobs and earn a decent living but they are still skinheads from their youth and they have a mindset when dressed in their gear and with their mates. Long live the BROTHERHOOD.
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