Wednesday, 30 March 2011

2nd Millenioum and then










Cyber Goths


With the start of the new millenioum Cybergoths became more colourful. They choose more neon colours than black like what they used in 90s'. The profile of those who belong in this subculture became more "futuristic". They adopt nicknames as "nuclear" and "biohazard". The taste in music became more electronic and the lyrics are vulgar while some of them refer to suicide and sacrifice.





















EMOS

Despite the fact that the emo subculture started in middle 80s' it's been years until 2006 when it became a fashion. Youths, especially teenagers, adopted this style as it was one of the most known and effective that period. The ideology remains as it was but the fashion becomes more colourful. They are linked with the symbol of heart <3 and broken heart </3.
Emos use the phrase "Haters Make Me Famous" that exists because they use to be unfriendly to each other and "Hate" other emos. Moreover there are many people who not only don't like this subculture but they can't even accept it. These are the emo haters who use to go around in groups and beat emos while some of them use to have a pair of scissors so that to cut the emo fringes. Their music changes to more hardcore, the vocals more screamy and the lyrics are more suicidal and self-catastrophic.











Nintendocore



This is a subculture that started in the late 90s' from US but it has been mainstream in 00s' till today. It is a sub-genre of hardcore-punk and post-hardcore music in a mix with video games' sounds and melodies. The vocals are usually screams and sometimes the music reminds more electro than hardcore. This movement started from the group Horse the Band that had the term "Nintendocore" as a joke but after 2000 when they published their first album that demostrated this style with the name "The black Hole". Nowadays one of the most famous Nintendocore bands is Enter Shikari. The dress-code is similar to hardcore one but Nintendocores use more bright and light colours than black and dark. 






The Black Hole-Horse the band
Enter Shikari- Sorry you are not the winner

















Pokemones






Yeah. This is a subculture based on the famous Japanese anime Pokemon. It was emerged in the middle 2000s' and it started declining around 2009. Especially teens were members of this team. The have an outfit similar to Otaku and Emo but they didn't have the same music taste. It is said that they used to go to parties, dance  reggaeton music and kissing and groping each other (both males and females). Their way of communication was through sharing their photos via Fotolog and talking on msn. They are usually from the Chilean middle and lower class. They are juxtaposed against another group calles pelolais. In January 2008, Internet messages surfaced urging violence against Pokemones and the members of this genre were usually attacked out of pubs and discos. In response of that, Chilean government and Santiago's main student leaders organized an anti-violence campaign called "Foundation for a Better Future". 




Tuesday, 29 March 2011

90s' SUBCULTURES




☣Cyber Goths☣

    Subculture that started in 90s’ influenced by the British techno/rave/trance styles combined with a part of metal and rock music. Others believe it as Cybergoth= Cyberpunk+Goth
      They use the sign of biohazard.
  They go to special clubs where they listen to noise, ebm and cybergoth and dance "industrial dance".

  The dress-code is unisex with destroyed fishnets, vinyl-fabric clothes, neon colors, dreadlocks and cyberlocks and corsets. Really often used biohazard masks as well cyber goggles. High platform boots or military boots.
Weird colorful fluorescent make up and same color fluffy boots is really common in this style.
In Camden town there are 
many shops with that kind of clothing. The most famous 
is “Cyberdog” that opened 
in the middle 90s' and 
started with a kind of trans fashion and it is located 
in the Camden Stables.















☢Industrial☢

Their ideology includes parts of Nazis and Hitler. Many of them are racists and it is not rare for skinheads to try a more extreme look and becoming a part of the industrial subculture.
It is based on industrial music that is made from industrial noises. It is similar to Cybergoth but it is not such dancing kind.



They use vinyl and leatherette fabrics too. The colors are darker and most of them are black. They use to shave their eyebrows and draw them on as cybergoths . Many of them are linked with BDSM✖ style and use the same kind of corsets and general outfit.


Music:





Rivethead

This subculture is a sub-genre of Industrial Music scene. It exists since 1990s'. These who belong to Rivethead listen to industrial music but they style is militaristic with hints of protective gear that normally was a part of an assembly worker's appearance. Also they used to have many tattoos, piercings and scarification.




☠Emo☠


They started in the middle 80s’ but they became widely known in early 90s’. This subculture started with the hardcore punk music, they adopted the alternative rock style in both sound and style and then created the emocore and screamo music which is similar to hardcore. Usually the lyrics are about a “black world”, pain, suicide and deep love.
Emo originated in America (Washington) and became well known in Europe after 2000.
Its style refers more to teens that are parted in emo and scene and their appearance differs from place to place.
Emos (as style) use to wear more black clothes, stripes, jeans and simple t-shirts as well converse. They usually dye their hair black or light blond/white.
Scene use to wear more colorful clothes and have really colorful hair.
Both of them paint their eyes black and have many piercings. The most of those who belong to this subculture tend to be anorexic or bulimic.












Mathcore 


    They started existing in early 90s' from North America, although the first music album that supported that style was published in 1984. This is a rythmicaly complex and dissonant style of metalcore. Its term is suggested by analogy with math rock as both of them use unusual time signatures. People who belong to this subculture dress with black simple t shirts, jeans and sport shoes or arvils. They use to have not as long hair as metalcores have.














 Otherkin 




    People who belong to this community believe that they are not humans. They are relates with therian, vampire and draconic subcultures. They have the heptagram as their symbol. Some Otherkins claim that they can shapeshift mentally. Its existance is told to be made through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul, ancestry or symbolic metaphor.
Despite the fact that this ideology is existing hundred years now, the first Internet resource that is found about it is "Elfinkind Digest" and is dated back in 1990 by a student at the University of Kentucky. Since then it became well known and later many game designers used it to make game characters and make people get easier associated with them. The younger Otherkin subculture has based its development on some elven online communities of the early 90s.














Riot Grrrl


 This is an underground feminist pink subculture that started from Washington in the middle of 90s' and it is associated with third-wave feminism. Riot Grrrl bands have usuallu issues such as rape, domestic abuse, sexuality and female empowerment. Some of them are Bikini Kill, Bratmobile and Frumpies such as lesbian queencore like Team Dresch. Ladies who are called Riot Grrrls are more involved in art and politics than other women of their era and can also be characterized of having activism and holding meetings, starting chapters and getting supported and organized in music.




Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Subcultures in 80s'

Goths

This subculture was fount in many different places. It started from England and it was a part of the Post-Punk genre. This style is still "alive" and seems to be more temporal than other styles of the same era. Its name came after a headline "The face of Punk Gothique". In 1982 a bar called Batcave opened in London's Soho and in the later years the term "Batcaver" was refered for the old-school goths. The same time a similar style called death rock was born in America. Some years later in the later 80s' in Germany, a subculture called Grufti translated as "Tomb Creatures", combined the gothic, new wave and new romantic style and created the dark wave culture.


Fashion

Goths used to prefer clothes in 19th century's Victorian style, usually black and sometimes burgundy dark purple and white. Huge skirts and tufted Collars as well corsets was the clothigs for women and suits and vests for men. Moreover they used to have half shaved hair, piercings and weird, dark make up.






Cyberpunk



This is a science fiction genre that emerged in the early 80s'. The name was given by Bruce Bethke after he published a short story called "Cyberpunk" (cybernetics+punk) in 1983.It is linked as connected with advanced science and a radical change in the social order. Its plots are about hackers, artificial intelligences and mega-corporations that were supposed to happen in Earth in the near future with settings post-industrial dystopias. Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime such as Akira and Ghost in the Shell. The first exponents in Cyberpunk were William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley. Although Cyberpunk started in 80s', the first influences in fashion and music had been in the early 90s'.






"Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body." – Lawrence Person

Subcultures in 70s'

SUBCULTURES




Hippies 


The hippie subculture was a subculture that started from United States during the half of 60s'.
hipster -> hippie
It used to refer to beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and similar urban areas. The first hippie ideology had countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Some of them created their own social groups and communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs especially marijuana and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness.



  • Flower Print Clothes
  • Headbands
  • Long Unkempt Hair
  • Mini Skirts
  • Chain Belts
  • Boots - Go-go boots
  • Grungy Jeans
  • Big Leather Vests 
  • Fringe 
  • Peace Symbol 




Teenyboppers 

This subcultures is exclusive to females, not allowing male. It was introduced in the 50s from teens who listened more pop and rock and roll. "Teenybopper” became well known in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the marketing of pop music, teen idols and fashions aimed specifically at younger girls, around 13 years old who also used to collect pin ups and posters from several bands of this era as they "had to" be in the latest trends.. It is a "retreat and preparation", allowing girls to relate to their peers and "practice in the secrecy of girl culture the rituals of courtship away from the eye of male ridicule”, also having no risks of standing out or personal humiliation, and serving as a retreat to avoid being labeled sexually. It also allows young girls to participate in semi-masturbatory rituals, since they don't have access to the masturbatory rituals common among boys. While the subculture allows them to have a space of their own, the subculture magazines offer an idealized relation with the teen idols, always implying a subordination of the female to the male, anticipating that the subordination will keep being present in their future relationships, and presenting an idealized form of marriage. 



1972


May 1976




Hairstyle: The teenyboppers of the seventies went in, in a big way, for the pageboy haircut. This hairstyle was created by curling the hair on the back inwards, keeping the length up to the neck, and doing the same on the bangs and the hair at the sides, curling all the hair inwards in order to frame the face. The bangs were fluffed up to give a finishing touch.

Music: The Osmonds / Bay City Rollers



Sharpies



Sharpies (Sharps) were members of suburban youth gangs in Australia mainly from the 60s to 80s, particularly in Melbourne, but also in Sydney and Perth to a lesser extent. The term comes from their focus on looking sharp. The dress and dance styles were strongly influenced by the British ska, mod and skinhead subcultures, and many of the Sharpies were British immigrants, recently arrived as "Ten Pound Poms”. Sharpies would try to outdo fellow sharpies by creating the best patterns, colours and detail. They were known for being violent, although a strict moral code was also evident. Sharpies gangs in Melbourne included Prahran Sharps, Melbourne Sharps and the A.N.A. Sharps and Anderson Rd Sharpies, from the Broadmeadows region in the 70s. It wasn't unusual for there to be hundreds of Sharpies milling about. They often went to dances and early discos, and because of sheer numbers, they were almost untouchable by the police. This led to excessive violence on behalf of the Sharpies, who would basically fight who they wanted, and take beer and money from who they wanted. The Sharpies subculture faded out due to mistrust between gangs and excessive violence.

Clothing:
  • Lee or Levi's jeans 
  • Sweaters and T-shirts (often designed by individual members). 





Jesus Freak 


 Jesus freak was used as a pejorative term for those involved in the Jesus movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, many members embraced the term, and its usage broadened to describe a Christian subculture throughout the hippie and back-to-the-land movements that focused on universal love and pacifism, and relished the radical nature of Jesus' message. Jesus freaks often carried and distributed copies of the "Good News for Modern Man,” a 1966 translation of the New Testament written in modern English. In Australia, and other countries, the term Jesus freak, along with Bible basher, is still used in a derogatory manner. It is most commonly used to refer to groups, such as Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, who participate in door-knocking to convert people. In Germany there is a Christian youth culture, also called Jesus Freaks, that claims to have its roots in the American movement. Moreover they are well known for the mass suicide that was committed by 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana.





Clothing:
  • Suits
  • Conservative Colors especially White Black Blue and Grey 
  • Ties
  • Long Hair
  • Stubble
  • Long Skirts








Many Information in the book 

Subculture: The Meaning of Style

 By Dick Hebdige






Me Generation 


Generation ME - I want, I need, I deserve, but…I would rather not earn it, just give it to me.


Generation me refers to people who were born from 70s' and after. It is a term that describes the behavior of those who were grown up in comforts and once they became adults they do not make any effort to develop themselves. They are people who "suffer" from fixation, boredom and the idea that they will become rich and famous without doing anything. Prosperous happiness covers their needs especially nowadays that every single thought can be known worldwide in some seconds via web. Actually in Generation Me people believe that their personal needs should come first. They never put the duty before personal satisfaction and use to depend financially to their parents blaming everyone else for their useless self. 
In the Me Generation there are some subgroups depending on the decade that the people were born. Those who were born in 1960 - 1981 are also called "generation X", "millenials" or "Baby Busters".
After then and until 1999 they are called iGeneration because of the sudden internet disclosure. However, it is believed that the "i" that is in front of the title iGeneration makes it easier for some to belong to Me Generation. That happens due to the combination of the first thought of "i"= I = myself and their tendency to conform in everything that makes them seem special.







Tuesday, 8 March 2011

The Fail Field Trip :)

Everything started we we met at 38 Carnaby street. We were going to a textile exhibition that finally had been removed last year ( something that you could not know if you did not call at the exhibition centre).
When we found out that there is no exhibition we decided to go to barbican. Unfortunately the exhibition we were going to see started the next day SO we saw another exhibition about virtual bowling games and their game machines.










This was the first and oldest virtual bowling game







Fashion trends of the 80s

The fashion trends in 80s' were quite different than the other decades... Bright colours, cheap fabrics, plastic and Madonna could be named as the basic new trend. We can not say that this decade made the body look nice because these trends who did not look awful, were just funny.



Stretch-Stirrup Pants


Actually this kind of pants made even the thinest woman seem big and made the legs have a triangle shape.





Acid Washed Jeans


This new type of jeans was a trend especially for more rockers than simple people.





Shoulder Pads


This pads in my opinion made women seem creepy and mean... It reminds a bit of a sergeant.





Parachute Pants

This type of Pants was one of the "bad" trends too. They looked like a potato sack and made everyone seem bigger than the stretch-stirrup pants did.





Members Only Jackets


In this brand was as famous as Madonna. No one could accept imitations and if you had not one of those you could easily stay in the crowd of dorks.




Oversized Tops


Maybe it was one of the few things that looked nice on the body.




Feathered Hair

This trend was again a big fail...
It made the head look like a neonate bird.




Other Trends of 80s'




  • Normandy rose jeans
  • Cotler pants jeans that had snap pockets that would fold over exposing a different color.
  • zebra club oversize sweatshirts (maybe its only a west coast thang)
  • la bands (black bracelets Madonna's wearing (now sell it at hot topic))
  • trench coats
  • long scarves
  • jelly shoes/sandals
  • sling back usually by spirit
  • Esprit laundry bags
  • guess or jean jacket (usually in light pink or blue jean and or white)
  • door knocker earrings gold bamboo
  • ripped jeans
  • pink lip stick
  • heavy eyebrows
  • wearing non matching earrings (pretty n pink)
  • pumps (all colors)
  • large buttons or large burgundy tan striped out fits w/ a flip over collar
  • playboy bunny sweatshirts, t-shirts etc
  • putting letters or your name or tag on the back of t-shirts or member only jackets
  • Sailor hats and or sailor like blouses
  • Mob like hats
  • Zute suits pants w/ suspenders
  • Overalls
  • button type earrings and or odd shaped/dice earrings/metal or metallic earrings
  • kamikaze shirts that had sleeves that would zip off like a t-shirt length or like a muscle shirt
  • Japanese earrings or clothing w/ Japanese characters on them
  • Biker shorts or spandex
  • Wearing biker shorts under mini skirts
  • polka dots
  • lace jeans on one side/jeans w/ different color front & backs
  • EBS tennis shoes that were much like skippies very simple tie up
  • Mary janes or the karate type shoes for guys
  • wearing jeans tight or tapered around the ankles (also called pegging)
  • wearing jeans tight period!
  • head bands
  • hair ties, banana clips and ribbon barrettes
  • Coca-cola shirts
  • blush & visual apparent foundation cover up makeup
  • nose piercing
  • carrying around a large radio/ghetto blaster / cassettes
  • drive in movie theatres
  • arcades
  • hanging out at dicks restaurant on Broadway in Seattle
  • graffiti & break dancing
  • wearing your bra outside w/ a jacket over or wearing a mesh / see thru shirts
  • Leotards
  • plastic sunglasses