Subculture Clothing

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posted by lxpk Mon, 2006-10-09 16:37

Subcultural clothing identifies you with a particular group's attitude and helps you relate to members of the subculture. It makes you stand out to people from other cultures.

Some people are all about expressing their identity through alternative fashion. Rock bands, anarchist punks and Code Pink women are all examples of doers who dress subculturally to make a statement.

Activists operating at concerts and music festivals can benefit from appropriate subcultural clothing.

It takes more than clothes to fully mesh with a subculture.

"Sticking feathers in your butt does not make you a chicken!"

For general activism, overdoing subcultural dress emphasizes your differences from the very people you are trying to reach. It all comes down to audience, messenger and message. What you wear should fit who you're reaching, who you are and what you're trying to say.

Wikipedia's list of subcultures

Goth

Cyberpunk Subculture

Trenchcoats, black, techy T-shirt messages

Hip-Hop Subculture

an easier way.

Submitted by thekid12 on Wed, 2007-08-29 10:05.

to try to fit in, just wear a frikin Black tshirt, plain all balck, maybe with a cool spraypainted design on the back or somthing. then don your 511's or if you dont have em.... jeans, everyone has a pair of jeans right? hell yes.there you go, oh and try to find some tennis shoes or skate shoes, i like the all black vans. very nice. anyways, you dont exactly need to snap tight to a culture, you'll just get called a poser or whatever it is these days. just dress, er like i do,

the color black

Submitted by kidwithjedipowers on Mon, 2007-10-29 14:10.

Black is good, but all black might make people look at you funny. Instead, if you are trying to blend in, pick some other neutral colors and mix them up. Want a logo? find or DIY a regular looking logo that may or may not actually mean anything but blends in with the crowd. Remember too, it all depends on where you are going, and who you want to be camouflaged from.

I wear all black all the

Submitted by lxpk on Thu, 2007-11-01 09:48.

I wear all black all the time and own nothing but black, CADPAT woodland and CADPAT desert camo. However, my goal is normally to look sharply professional and attract attention with my height and looks to my message on my T-shirt, "EMPOWERTHYSELF.COM". I'm not trying to be gray on a daily basis.

Being sucessfully in a subculture means never being asked

Submitted by V on Tue, 2007-10-30 21:22.

I generally wear black swat boots and combat trousers with anti authoritarian, or unbranded black t-shirts. All the time.

I have never been called anything. I don't notice people looking at me funny.

Mostly they just stay out of my way.

Mostly.

I call that empowerment

Submitted by lxpk on Thu, 2007-11-01 09:46.

I call that empowerment dress as it is simply the highest function footwear, the highest function pants and an optimal shirt with a message of your choice or no message at all for everyone's mental hygiene. I wear Original SWAT side-zip 9" leather waterproof boots and 5.11 TDU tacpants with integrated knee pads + empowerthyself.com shirts. I am planning on picking up some "normal" clothing though to be able to go undercover in the non-PIB(people in black) world for things like border crossings and other authority relations situations.

Subculture clothing and brandspace

Submitted by adnauseam on Wed, 2007-10-31 20:07.

I agree with V "Being sucessfully in a subculture means never being asked." This reminds me of a favorite meme of mine "If you're explaining, you're losing."

Has anyone noticed clashes with people because of your appearance? I generally don't display any brands and wear plain/dark colours and notice that it definitely makes me stand out where everyone HAS been branded. A check on the "He's not one of us" checklist so to speak. I recently cut my hair incredibly short after many years and quit my job working at a head-shop (Smoking Accessories) and have certainly noticed a difference in how some of the older folk treat me. Is that because it's changed their attitudes towards me or my own attitude towards me? You've gotta wonder sometimes. Is projection perception or is perception projection?

Has anyone successfully created their own personal brand?

I just cut my hair for the

Submitted by lxpk on Thu, 2007-11-01 09:42.

I just cut my hair for the first time in my life and I get more respect from guys and a lot more attention from the ladies. I do security work on the side and I get immediate compliance by being a 6'5" spiky-haired guy in tactical gear without the long hair hippy thing ruining the whole phantom menace by giving away my essentially peaceful inclination.

Creating your own personal brand? That's a clever idea, making up a brand just for yourself. I know craftspeople do this with their work by giving it a mark on kinfe blades and the like.

I'm having the EmpowerThyself.com shirts printed and plan to own 10 of them and wear them every day as empowerment clothing except when the situation calls for casual, business or subcultural attire.

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