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Womens and Mens Punk Clothing
Punk, born of marginalized misfits in New York City, has spread to the mainstream and beyond. The music has seeped into most corners of teenage life in America, in cities, suburbs and small towns. And in the city of its birth, mens punk
clothing has established a stronghold among a growing number of the upper-middle-class young. Good students by day, they mosh by night. The neighborhood baby sitter has a Mohawk.
That once-preppy girl from the Dalton School? She just pierced her nose with a safety pin when Mom and Dad weren't looking.One explanation may be that society is on the threshold of a new punk explosion, much the way hip-hop was embraced by white suburban teenagers in the '90s. Donna Gaines, a sociologist, fan of the punk-rock band the Ramones, and the author of ''A Misfit's Manifesto: The Spiritual Journey of a Rock-and-Roll Heart'' (Villard, 2003), has noticed a growing number of new, younger punk fans, not only at the Ramones Web sites but also at shows at punk's temple, the New York club CBGB, where the Ramones and other first-generation punk bands got their start in the 1970s. ''Before, punk was more edgy and subversive,'' Gaines said. ''But now it's moved into the mainstream mens punk clothing. It's become safer to be disruptive.''The George W. Bush presidency, the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq may also be fueling the punk bonfire. ''Kids are angry and scared because of what's going on in the world,'' she said. ''We're living in very scary times.
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| Punk's only going to get bigger.''And for students in the city's pressure-cooker competitive high schools and especially its private schools, punk may have a special allure. ''At private schools, there are these increased pressures on kids,'' Gaines said. ''It's this small community, with so much adult authority and surveillance. Sometimes kids feel like they don't have free space. So punk is this oppositional culture. It gives them their own identity.'' New York City, where punk was born some 30 years ago, is still the center of the punk clothing universe. There are dozens of performing spaces for famous and not-so-famous punk bands. There's the holy ground of CBGB, where howling is still a rite of passage for most young rockers.While suburban punks must shop at the mall or online, New York City teenagers can explore the punk clothing wonderland that is St. Marks Place in the East Village, and many have the disposable income to make rich use of it. At Freaks, a punk clothing store on St. Marks Place, sales of studded belts and bracelets have quadrupled in the past two years. See also mens punk clothes, and pages relate to mens punk clothing | more |
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