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PUNK: "a visual assault that threatens personal airspace of passersby"

Early punks created a style that was antithetical to the hippies' long hair, and pony tails, beards, sideburns, nineteeth-century mustaches, moccasins, sandals, tie-dyed shirts, beads, long dresses, lack of makeup, earth tones, and peasant- inspired clothes.
The punk ethos also inverted the hippie ideals of peace, love, romanticism, and rural utopianism by embracing nihilism, anger, symbolic violence, and urban decay.
Although the style was seemingly random and chaotic, punks were systematically choosing elements that were homologous with their vales and constructing these into a meaningful whole that expressed their ethose of the subculture.
The most immediately recognizable aspect of initial punk adornment in Britain was brilliantly dyed and elaborated formed hairstyles. Unnatural hair colors such as pink, lime green, bright orange, blood red, deep purple or combinations of several Day-glow tones were used, and hair was frequently styled into tufts, spikes, and other designs. Some punks dyed their hair jet black, an ever popular color in the punk subculture because of its sinister connotations while others bleached their hair with Hydrogen-Peroxide (H2O2). Both males and female punks frequently cut their hair short, cropped it in patches, or shaved thier heads completely. Those who prefered longer hair created plumes or manes that seemed to defy gravity, giving the impression that a jolt of electricity had just passed through the bearers body. Some punks created asymmetrical coiffures of varied lengths and designs; others wore feather crowns that sometimes resemble halos or auras. These hairstyles were held in place by an assortment of folk concoctions- egg whites, sugar water, spray-on-starch, Superglue, Vaseline, Ivory soap, lacquer, Elmer's glue- as well as by commercial gels and hair sprays such as Extra Super Hold Aqua Net. The most renowned hairstyle associated with early punks is the "mohawk" or "mohican", which involved shaving the sides of the head and leaving a vertical strip extending from the front to the back. These brightly coloured simulations of Mohican Indian hairstyles had connotations of youth on the "warpath" and evoked stereotyped notions of the "primitive", a designation that was used both to denigrate punk aesthetics and label punk as a threat to Western civilization.
Punk hair with its angular styles and cacophony of colours, was made to appear as unnaturally as possible, thus constitutling an inversion of hippie hairstyles, which flowed naturally down the back or were tied in ponytails.
In contrast to the often flamboyant multicoloured hair favoured by early punks, their faces were frequently made up to look colorless and anemic. Both male and female punks often applied makeup in exaggerated manner to give an impression of pallor and lifelessness. Pale and emaciated, resembling zombies or corpses, punk faces and physics were often transformed into symbols of death or physical ailment, portraits of a diseased society that reflected the idea of futurelessness.
Lips were often painted in colours associated with death- black, dark brown, grey-purple, or were heavily rouged. Layers of pancake makeup was applied and black eyeliners was used to create a deathly, ghoulish appearance.
By celebrating the uniqueness of individual styles that opposed prevailing ideas of good taste, punks implicitly criticized dominant notions about beauty and fashion. This anti-fashion aesthetic, which priveliged the "flawed" and "rejected", is revealed by the punk preference for cheap clothing and fabrics with kitschy or bizarre designs. A hodgepodge of materials- plastic, plaid, tartan, lurex, nylon mesh, mock zebra, tiger, leopard skin, and even trash bags- was adopted, modified, and paraded on the streets. Lace, leather, PVC, rubber, shiny fabrics, and army and school uniforms were also pervasive. Sometimes punks wore clothing inside out, thus displaying the construction of garments. Any style abandoned by the fashion industry as gaudy, cheap, or passe was embraced and exhibited. Ripped and soiled jeans, T-shirts, Dr. Marten boots, and steel-toed boots were popular, as were camouflage and military style pants and shirts and anything else that contributed to an aggressive, terrorist, or guerilla combat look.
Adorned in torn and tattered rags, punks looked as if they had just returned from a fight, an automobile accident, or a battlefield. With their clothes shredded and held together by pins and strings, punks were literally falling apart at the seams, a reflection of their feelings of being abused and discarded by an unjust society.
Punks used trash and dicared paraphernalia as adornments to symbolize their sense of rejection and their feelings about being society's garbage.
The (trialization) and commercialization of punk, its becoming an acknowledged musical and fashion genre prompted the claim that "punk is dead".
GOTHIC

gothic style reflects a fascination with the macabre, the gruesome, and the supernatural, welding a preoccupation with Victorian romanticism, the iconography of horror films. Rather than shredding their clothes and adoring themselves in debris like early punks, goths created elaborate colorless costumes that expressed their fetisization of the sinister and morbid: clothing that is almost exclusively black; hair dyed jet black or sometimes red, shred into manes, teased into featherly plumes, or made to appear uncombed and disheveled; eyes heavily shadowed with mascara and lips painted black, grey, brown, or red; fingernails painted with the same colours; pancake make up used to render faces deathly white so that individuals resemble corpses, ghouls, and vampires. Tights and stretch pants are often worn with billowy shirts or blouses made of velvet, silk, or satin, and androgynous appearance is common among both men and women.