Botolph
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What do you folk think about my recent pondering, having looked at several mod/skin related social media sites, I fear that the relevance of what they were about is now obsolete. Old men/women who look embarrassing, young people who look out of time.
Yeah but don’t you think that skinhead and mod are a young man’s game? That its boundaries are set/pushed/pulled back on by the young faces of the respective scenes? Of course you have the sad old codgers still trying to pull the look off(and fail horribly)— but the young set have new bands, pushing musical boundaries, setting the musical tone for a certain set of disenfranchised youth everywhere.
Not sure about the mod scene, but there are probably more young skinheads worldwide than there ever were. It has moved long ago beyond Britain and has been diluted for sure but it’s still there.