Hair

Skinheads traditionally have a shaved head but there appears to be a trend towards buzz cuts, shaved sides and mohawks. These socalled skinheads are bluring the line. Anything more than a Number 1 cut is not a skinhead look. Many Punks are claiming to be skinheads but their hair and clothing are nowhere near what a skinhead should be.

A skinhead traditionally shaves his head and wears his clobber with pride. He is part of a youth army world wide and to part from tradition is putting the brotherhood at risk. If you want to follow fashion then so be it, but don't call yourself a skinhead. Skinheads don't follow fashion. They follow a tradition. What is a skinhead tradition? A shaved head, a working class background and a uniform recognised world wide. Yes, it is a uniform, no different to the military. We are an army of arrogant, angry men, fed up with unemployment, low paid jobs and a media that cannot come to terms with our culture.

So if you call yourself a skinhead, then look at your hair or lack of it. If it is not a shaved head or Number 1 cut, then you are not a skin. What you are is your business but don't call yourself a skinhead.