Mod (subculture)
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Mod, from the word modernist, is a subculture that began in the late 1950s London and spread throughout Great Britain, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries. It continues today
Two mid-1960s mods on a customised Lambretta scooter
Quadrophenia exhibit at the Cotswold Motor Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water in 2007
Small Faces in 1965
Carnaby Street in "Swinging London" c. 1966
Skinhead
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A skinhead or skin is a member of a subculture that originated among working-class youth in London, England, in the 1960s. It soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working-cl
Mod (subculture)
…As mod became more cosmopolitan during the "Swinging London" period, some working-class "street mods" splintered off, forming other groups such as the skinheads. By the early 1970s, mod had long faded out, as did psychedelia of the dandy culture with popularity, with hard rock and glam rock styles taking over…
Skinhead women with straight-cut fringes in Portugal in 2008
SHARP skinhead
Hoxton Tom McCourt, a revival skinhead pictured in 1977
Late 2000s female skinhead with a Chelsea cut