Hi,
By 68 the hard mods and gang mods had settled into the orignal skinhead look, this evolved along the way until about 71, when the first Skinhead look really ended with the appearance of much longer hair (smoothies), jumpers, plaid trousers, later flairs, and Norwegians with the lattice tops and square toe. Beetle crushers as we used to call them. A good reference point is Jim Ferguson's Fashion Notebook, the relevant parts of which you can find in Skinhead by Nick Knight. By 73 all remnants of the look that the smoothies had retained had been lost to glam rock and flairs. That said, not much later the NF hijacked the original style for their nazi boneheads. The most radical departures of course being the completley shaven head, that orignal skinheads NEVER had. The use of American military style bomber jackets, much higher jeans, and much higher boots and most horribly simply a t-shirt on top replacing the checked shirts and tennis shirts.
Although the film "16 Years of Alcohol" with Kevin McKidd (Rome series) was made in 2003, it displays the late 60s /early 70s style of the original skinhead very well, in this case in Glasgow. As this photo shows, with the white jeans, the black or red Dr. Martens and the Crombie coats. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5Qcl1S1M...m/_5Qcl1S1MdQQ/SN6mIZsmrCI/AAAAAAAAMUA/q0xrEkw4ejA/s400/16-years-Main-Photo.jpg
In this scene in the film they emulate the famous underpass running & shouting scene from Clockwork Orange
https://generationfilm.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/a_clockwork_orange.jpg
By 68 the hard mods and gang mods had settled into the orignal skinhead look, this evolved along the way until about 71, when the first Skinhead look really ended with the appearance of much longer hair (smoothies), jumpers, plaid trousers, later flairs, and Norwegians with the lattice tops and square toe. Beetle crushers as we used to call them. A good reference point is Jim Ferguson's Fashion Notebook, the relevant parts of which you can find in Skinhead by Nick Knight. By 73 all remnants of the look that the smoothies had retained had been lost to glam rock and flairs. That said, not much later the NF hijacked the original style for their nazi boneheads. The most radical departures of course being the completley shaven head, that orignal skinheads NEVER had. The use of American military style bomber jackets, much higher jeans, and much higher boots and most horribly simply a t-shirt on top replacing the checked shirts and tennis shirts.
Although the film "16 Years of Alcohol" with Kevin McKidd (Rome series) was made in 2003, it displays the late 60s /early 70s style of the original skinhead very well, in this case in Glasgow. As this photo shows, with the white jeans, the black or red Dr. Martens and the Crombie coats. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5Qcl1S1M...m/_5Qcl1S1MdQQ/SN6mIZsmrCI/AAAAAAAAMUA/q0xrEkw4ejA/s400/16-years-Main-Photo.jpg
In this scene in the film they emulate the famous underpass running & shouting scene from Clockwork Orange
https://generationfilm.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/a_clockwork_orange.jpg
) They hated the new plastic skins."
