THE IMAGE OF 60s SUBCULTURE

The image of youth culture has changed throughout the 60s to the twenty first century. At first, youth culture was about the younger generation finding their own identity and differing from the traditional norms of their parents' generation, called the Generation Gap which took place in the 60s. The changing youth culture went from young girls learning to become housewives, to the teen culture experimenting with sex and drugs. The 60s was known for its outstanding change in fashion. Many new sub-cultures like hippies, mods, rockers and  greasers,created an image for each group type. 

 Greasers

Greasers were a predominantly white ethnic youth subculture that originated in the 1950s among young northeastern and southern United States street gangs.

Hippies

The Hippie Movement, also spelled hippy, was during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mainstream American life. Hippies felt alienated from middle-class society, which they saw as dominated by materialism and repression, and they developed their own distinctive lifestyle. They favoured long hair and casual, often unconventional, dress, sometimes in “psychedelic” colours. Many males grew beards, and both men and women wore sandals and beads.

Rockers & Mods

The mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early to mid-1960s. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the two groups became labelled as folk devils.

. The rocker subculture was centred around motorcycling, and their appearance reflected that. Rockers generally wore protective clothing such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots The common rocker hairstyle was a pompadour, which was associated with 1950s rock and roll — the rockers' music genre of choice.

 The mod subculture was centred around fashion and music, and many mods rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and preferred 1960s music genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska and beat music.