The Sad State of Punk Fashion

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  • @danframpt0n
    @danframpt0n  7 місяців тому +30

    hey punkers, thanks for watching.

    • @anarchords1905
      @anarchords1905 7 місяців тому

      Good morning, lad. Today I shall be going up the town wearing (bottom - top) :
      24-hole cherry-red paten Docs,
      liquid latex,
      a hat.

    • @michellebonner18
      @michellebonner18 7 місяців тому +1

      Hey, Dan! ~How 'bout a Big, fat tusk through the septum and a left nipple piercing?!. 😎☺

    • @aotctd
      @aotctd 4 місяці тому

      What the fvck have you got to do with Punk ?

  • @willy_b_coyote
    @willy_b_coyote 7 місяців тому +68

    Clothes don’t make the man. If you want to dress up in studded leather jackets, doc martens, and so on, then DO IT. But if you want to just wear converse, a t shirt, and jeans, that’s perfectly fine too.
    Wear what you want, how you want, and don’t let ANYONE tell you otherwise.

    • @MacGuffinExMachina
      @MacGuffinExMachina 7 місяців тому +3

      I always switch up my look depending on my mood and how introverted or extroverted I feel. This pfp is a year old, but I have a more normal haircut now. Dressnin basic stuff. Vans, jeans, and tees. Sometimes i go more goth. As a teen, I felt like I was being a poseur to go buffet style on subculture, but it's more poseurish to try to go against what you wanna do.

    • @MacGuffinExMachina
      @MacGuffinExMachina 7 місяців тому

      Wish I could edit my typos.

    • @cimmeriakurt
      @cimmeriakurt 7 місяців тому

      Hey Dan, let's face it Sid Vicious had the best PUNK look. And that's the TRUE look. The CRAP you listen to sucks. You better adopt the Sid VICIOUS look so you can look the opposite of your nemesis FIN MCKENTY!! What do u say? #GETSOME

    • @free-the-whales
      @free-the-whales 7 місяців тому +1

      I dress like a normie and go to shows. I enjoy dressing up, however.

    • @midnightwitch606
      @midnightwitch606 7 місяців тому +1

      Best comment here, punk is literally wear what the heck you want

  • @terminaldeity
    @terminaldeity 7 місяців тому +30

    A big reason I was drawn to hardcore was that everyone wore normal ass clothes. Dudes wearing collared button down shirts going hard in the pit was so badass to 14 year old me.

    • @off6848
      @off6848 7 місяців тому +7

      I once went to a metal show in red basketball shorts and a white t shirt and immediately got mean mugged by everyone in the pit lol

    • @Chilloutandwatchanime
      @Chilloutandwatchanime 5 місяців тому

      @@off6848I went to a local death metal show in a anime baseball Jersey and a regurgitation shirt on mind you im a known local in the scene didn’t get mean mugged at all guess your scene is just different lol

    • @off6848
      @off6848 5 місяців тому

      @@Chilloutandwatchanime it was Thou x Cloud Rat

  • @kabukimanindahouse
    @kabukimanindahouse 7 місяців тому +15

    dressed like a lars frederiksen clone from 14 up until 28 or something. then in 2016 i grew my hair out to my navel, started wearing comfy, but colorful clothes, just doing whatever i like and ironically became more punk, than the guy wearing two studded belts, a bleach-splattered vest and spiked up bleached hair ever was. i started to realize, that i'm just conforming to a uniform and that every regular teen has green hair, tats and piercings anyway. criticize me, sure. i mean, still like the music and scene, but i'd rather look like i do now and feel like myself, instead of trying to be gbh. am 36 now.

    • @cimmeriakurt
      @cimmeriakurt 7 місяців тому +2

      Hey Dan, let's face it Sid Vicious had the best PUNK look. And that's the TRUE look. The CRAP you listen to sucks. You better adopt the Sid VICIOUS look so you can look the opposite of your nemesis FIN MCKENTY!! What do u say? #GETSOME

  • @aaronruiz2896
    @aaronruiz2896 7 місяців тому +15

    Being punk is a state of mind .. not fashion. 😂

    • @SomeRandomPunk
      @SomeRandomPunk 7 місяців тому

      👍

    • @cimmeriakurt
      @cimmeriakurt 7 місяців тому +1

      Hey Dan, let's face it Sid Vicious had the best PUNK look. And that's the TRUE look. The CRAP you listen to sucks. You better adopt the Sid VICIOUS look so you can look the opposite of your nemesis FIN MCKENTY!! What do u say? #GETSOME

  • @eancurtis9333
    @eancurtis9333 7 місяців тому +6

    We are all poseurs !

  • @virgilflowers9846
    @virgilflowers9846 7 місяців тому +6

    I stopped dressing Street punk pretty quickly after I started when I was a teenager, when I started getting into hardcore and post hardcore, and most of those guys dressed pretty normal in the late 90s. As a musician it was more appealing to me to see those dudes go on stage and crush it wearing every-man clothes than the dudes that were dressing in 70s-80s punk fashion.

  • @coolea
    @coolea 7 місяців тому +4

    It's cooh-lee-ah. Much love

  • @noone26667
    @noone26667 7 місяців тому +8

    Unfortunately I have a family to feed so I can’t look punk. My work clothes cover all my tattoos, though, so at least I have that.
    Edit: I also have a massive scar that runs down the center of my head to behind my ear so that’s pretty punk if brain surgery counts.

  • @camerondodge2070
    @camerondodge2070 7 місяців тому +6

    The funniest thing is how much glam metal stuff I was able to refashion into more punk looking attire, and vice versa.

    • @free-the-whales
      @free-the-whales 7 місяців тому +1

      I was on pinterest recently and saw this term for the first time: glam punk 🤔 Y'all can name 3 Def Leppard songs?

    • @camerondodge2070
      @camerondodge2070 7 місяців тому

      @@free-the-whales I usually think of glam punk as more Towers of London, but sure, I can. "When the Walls Come Tumbling Down", "Stagefright", and "Nine Lives".

  • @ShawnxEdge
    @ShawnxEdge 7 місяців тому +4

    I dress like cross between a straight edge hardcore punk, skateboarder and lots of black. Oh and my studded belt I’ve had for 30 years that I can’t seem to ditch. The chain wallet sadly had to go.

  • @LocalMansOpinion
    @LocalMansOpinion 7 місяців тому +4

    I was a troll/ borderline hater in the past but your content is getting a lot better

  • @WesleyGravolet
    @WesleyGravolet 4 місяці тому +1

    Being yourself is just about as punk rock as you can be...

  • @danieljames7037
    @danieljames7037 5 місяців тому +1

    The biggest sell out was the Sex Pistols with the fashion and one ablum produced.

  • @danieljames7037
    @danieljames7037 5 місяців тому +1

    Meat Hammers, Mohawks, liberty spikes
    Spike leather jackets, bondage pants and etc. Was a statement of not being part of working class society or government.
    and skinheads are working class with pride
    It was pretty divided between the punks and skins, Back in 80's growing up. I am skinhead that love punk rock still today

  • @spderman123
    @spderman123 7 місяців тому +3

    i gave up on fashion lost interest like 10 years ago when yeezy messed up clothing lol now its dad fits

  • @munkyzzb7504
    @munkyzzb7504 7 місяців тому +3

    Fr I've never had to pay for clothes ppl just give you them if you will take them

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +5

    Safety pins are the most punk

  • @lyudmilapavlichenko7551
    @lyudmilapavlichenko7551 7 місяців тому +6

    Avril Lavine is the apex of punk fashion. If you wear anything else you're a poser.

    • @trashcanjam
      @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому

      Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha *takes a breath* hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahaha…. Ha.

    • @Ravenghoul
      @Ravenghoul Місяць тому

      Avril Lavine is NOT Punk!

  • @BlakeBlackstone
    @BlakeBlackstone 7 місяців тому +2

    Damn bro you take forever to roll just one joint. I couldn't be in rotation with you.

  • @megmcguigan3857
    @megmcguigan3857 7 місяців тому

    I'm 53 and have been into both goth and punk music since 1986. I still have an undercut and regularly dye my now white hair blue. Love the video. Keep on keeping on.

  • @dayleebree3255
    @dayleebree3255 7 місяців тому +3

    I’m not punk I’m grunge . So I’m told . Grunge is a marketing term to sell advertising same as punk .

  • @Stuntman87
    @Stuntman87 7 місяців тому +3

    😂 introducing Erin Micklow 😆 🤣

    • @EncoreASMR
      @EncoreASMR 7 місяців тому +1

      She's a true punk. She puts everyone to shame 😂

  • @baileymoran8585
    @baileymoran8585 7 місяців тому +2

    I exist in many alt genres. But I consider myself a punk among other things because I align with the music and the values of it… and here’s the thing. I am punk whether I’m in my metalhead fantasy nerd gear, my casual leggings and a tank top, my work clothes, or my DIY leather shit. I’m still a punk when I go to goth nights because I also enjoy some of that music and have friends in that scene. I’m still a punk when I’m naked in the shower. I’m still a punk if I were to wear a dinosaur costume for whatever fucking reason. If you look at the early days of ‘punk fashion’ in the late 70s/early 80s, you would see jeans and a hoodie with an old shirt and chucks or work boots. You would see a dude in a thrifted prom dress from the 60s and a pair of neon rain boots. You would see a woman with a shaved head, loud make up, and an oversized t shirt she turned into a dress, with no shoes at all. It was ‘wear whatever the fuck you want whether it was ridiculous, some neutral abscess if fashion, or something you made yourself just for the hell of it.’ Coffee table books just focused on the more wild examples. So each generation got a more extreme impression of what they had to look like to be a part of the scene but the bands at the core often didn’t even care about all that. They promoted dressing like you. Not giving a fuck what anyone else wore. Finding your own style, and expressing your values in whatever way you wanted, whether you spray painted a vulgar message on a jacket or you just dressed like you were only interested in covering your body enough for legal purposes, or if you wore neutral clothes and let your mouth do the talking. So wear whatever you want even if it changes every day.

  • @18JR78
    @18JR78 7 місяців тому +4

    11:09 I guess Erin Micklow is the most punk by definition 😂
    ua-cam.com/users/shortsoNVzBjxFwfc?si=SOgwDDFtJrMYMhBS

    • @standinsilence
      @standinsilence 7 місяців тому +3

      Erin Micklow invented punk rock fashion. :-p

    • @18JR78
      @18JR78 7 місяців тому +2

      🤣

    • @standinsilence
      @standinsilence 7 місяців тому +2

      @@18JR78
      And you can be part of it by paying her to wear your bands t-shirt!! 💥

    • @18JR78
      @18JR78 7 місяців тому +2

      @@standinsilence
      Punk Billboard 101.

    • @EncoreASMR
      @EncoreASMR 7 місяців тому +1

      Real punk. She puts all punks to shame

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

    Almost at 13k followers wooohooooo

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +2

    I’ve never dressed the part.

    • @18JR78
      @18JR78 7 місяців тому

      That’s punk

  • @ShawnxEdge
    @ShawnxEdge 7 місяців тому +2

    Took and aboot I had a feeling you were Canadian.

  • @buddhull
    @buddhull 4 місяці тому

    I don’t know what about punk, but, to put it simply, I’ve just always worn my studded cod piece because I’m a Pisces… pretty self-explanatory

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

    Gotta say I love the intro so much!

  • @mrhappy7654
    @mrhappy7654 7 місяців тому

    LOVEEE the longer vids!! 🤗 Side of the lip ring is for you, dude! Not the septum, never the septum 🥞

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +2

    That’s so crazy how it haut couture hahahaha

  • @k4kayfourk4
    @k4kayfourk4 7 місяців тому +2

    Another banger from Daniel Framptoniel

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +2

  • @bill8146
    @bill8146 7 місяців тому +1

    Good video. Cat in the background was the star of the show.

  • @danieljames7037
    @danieljames7037 5 місяців тому

    Knox Gelatin was Proper use of spiking your hair
    In the early days

  • @shanesmith2853
    @shanesmith2853 7 місяців тому +1

    Frampton looking fly af in the McDonald's camo. Wear what you love, love what you wear. That's punk! I've settled into more of a thrift shop drag look myself 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞

    • @cimmeriakurt
      @cimmeriakurt 7 місяців тому

      Hey Dan, let's face it Sid Vicious had the best PUNK look. And that's the TRUE look. The CRAP you listen to sucks. You better adopt the Sid VICIOUS look so you can look the opposite of your nemesis FIN MCKENTY!! What do u say? #GETSOME

  • @NipplesOfDestiny
    @NipplesOfDestiny 7 місяців тому

    I've been going to shows since I was 13 and Im 335 now, back in the day there was a time when you could meet another punk rocker who dressed like you and you both kneww you were instantly friends, like if you saw them standing in line at McDonalds or something you would walk away best friends going to a show later that night... at least that's why I dressed up. I dunno if that's still the same thing today because I'm old and all the punk rockers my age are now drug addicts, but that's why I did it back then...

  • @PedroVasconezart
    @PedroVasconezart 5 місяців тому

    do you remember the Insta Punk Kit page? It was awesome.

  • @Jakethefartist
    @Jakethefartist 7 місяців тому +1

    Birthday suit is punk af clothes are for corporate posers

    • @18JR78
      @18JR78 7 місяців тому

      Show the assets

  • @free-the-whales
    @free-the-whales 7 місяців тому

    My two lady friends wore shorts and dresses in the pit at an august burns red show lmao. They were mad @ group think

    • @free-the-whales
      @free-the-whales 7 місяців тому

      FYI they were normie ladies!! I was the one who dressed punk! We all shared musica together though

  • @Roland-v4x
    @Roland-v4x 7 місяців тому +1

    Im a mixed bag of fashion from listening to punk and hip hop and skating in the 90s/2000s

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

    A quick cheek piercing too

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +2

    I think you should get your septum done

  • @trentx
    @trentx 7 місяців тому +1

    RUTHLESS 😮‍💨 my style as a juvenile 💯

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

    Devil lock!!!! Not a devy lock. That sounds like a hockey bro explaining it

  • @BlakeBlackstone
    @BlakeBlackstone 7 місяців тому

    I'd argue that The New York Dolls werent even really punk in terms of music or style. More of predecessor to punk. They had the glam thing going way too hard.

  • @EyeAteCod
    @EyeAteCod 7 місяців тому +3

    Thank you! I love your channel but it has been hard to to take you seriously when you are dressed the way you are. Usually I just put on head phones and listen but when I catch a glimpse sometimes I have to shut the video off. Please start dressing more punk 🙏

    • @18JR78
      @18JR78 7 місяців тому

      Sheep

  • @davesleyer9393
    @davesleyer9393 7 місяців тому

    If punk started with the Damned you could dress as a vampire. Or maybe a tutu and beret combo.

  • @donkelly4718
    @donkelly4718 3 місяці тому

    Actually, I'm less than 40 seconds in and I can see the punk. I mean, no liberty spikes, no death hawk, no studs, spikes, safety pins, etc., no crust punk battle jacket, no torn fishnets.....but there's a certain Anti-punk independence and nonconformative rebellious aesthetic that is very punk, as we saw it in its later "grunge" years.

  • @jayritchie1532
    @jayritchie1532 7 місяців тому

    I always pretty normal. T-shirt, jeans. No time for all that Halloween bullshit. Most of the best bands are the same.

  • @food4drugs967
    @food4drugs967 7 місяців тому +6

    “PuNk’s sHoUlD AlWaYS DResS PunK!!” Y’all know that’s fascism…right? Dress how you want. Everyone needs to know a “hXc Mike” IYKYK

    • @off6848
      @off6848 7 місяців тому +1

      I think the idea is that the normie society is fascist because its homogenous its uniform of normalityand so dressing crazy subverts it. But I can agree that punk definitely has its uniforms which defeats the point

    • @18JR78
      @18JR78 7 місяців тому +1

      @@off6848
      It’s always been a contradiction.

    • @off6848
      @off6848 7 місяців тому

      @@18JR78 I think by the 90s they just concluded that queer culture was the only thing left

    • @cimmeriakurt
      @cimmeriakurt 7 місяців тому

      Hey Dan, let's face it Sid Vicious had the best PUNK look. And that's the TRUE look. The CRAP you listen to sucks. You better adopt the Sid VICIOUS look so you can look the opposite of your nemesis FIN MCKENTY!! What do u say? #GETSOME

  • @putridabomination
    @putridabomination 7 місяців тому +1

    Got that fantano drip

  • @jaygutierrez9523
    @jaygutierrez9523 7 місяців тому

    That was a awsome vid! 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞

  • @p0ison_0ak33
    @p0ison_0ak33 7 місяців тому

    Red, blue, yellow...and i see some green 🍃💨🫶 btw i have glasses too and I listen to punk. I dress in whatever i feel comfortable in. I can listen to NOFX, then go harder like lamb of god! i love pop punk, grew up on blink-182 and Green Day. But also listen to Britney Spears and have 3/4 gauge ears and an 8 gauge septum so I guess I'm confused af 😂

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

    Coolea cheese! Mmmmmm

  • @onesteptodeath6426
    @onesteptodeath6426 7 місяців тому

    I don't get peircings, fear of having em ripped out in a pit, tho I gauged my ears

  • @OrbyEvil
    @OrbyEvil 7 місяців тому +2

    Slop content 4 life.

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +2

  • @free-the-whales
    @free-the-whales 7 місяців тому

    At 0:12 I thought they were gonna call you a hipster haha

  • @gadgettv2023
    @gadgettv2023 7 місяців тому

    7:50 No we just need excitement and expression in general. Punk or not.

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +2

  • @braddrummond9500
    @braddrummond9500 7 місяців тому

    "Symbol of hate"

  • @ShawnxEdge
    @ShawnxEdge 7 місяців тому

    I wasn’t expecting the bald head I gotta admit.

  • @HoboMerlin
    @HoboMerlin 7 місяців тому

    Pierce the Grundle.

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

    10:00 hahahahqhahaha

  • @westhesoikid
    @westhesoikid 7 місяців тому

    I’d definitely rather keep watching your videos than that guy’s… Holy shit, that censoring is so annoying.

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

    🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞

  • @EncoreASMR
    @EncoreASMR 7 місяців тому

    Erin Micklow is so punk

  • @gadgettv2023
    @gadgettv2023 7 місяців тому

    I’m not saying people who dress bland aren’t punk. But I am saying that you should actually enjoy what you’re wearing and not feel apathetic about it. That’s just old Native American wisdom right there.
    You don’t want to look like a “nothing man”

  • @scalpfarmer8289
    @scalpfarmer8289 7 місяців тому

    13:11

  • @anarchords1905
    @anarchords1905 7 місяців тому

    🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞

  • @BlakeBlackstone
    @BlakeBlackstone 7 місяців тому

    You look like Ian, which is pretty punk.

  • @theghostofblakephilbrook
    @theghostofblakephilbrook 7 місяців тому

    You look like you listen to golf grunge with that yee yee ass beanie and flannel.

  • @CHR1SUND4Y
    @CHR1SUND4Y 7 місяців тому

    #HotTopic is not punkrock!

  • @clestis4591
    @clestis4591 6 місяців тому

    "The lack of showers led to dreadlocks being a commonly seen thing." The anti-Blackness of it all. Locs are not a result of dirtiness. Locs are something that naturally happens for Black people who have curly and coily hair. They can be washed and are meant to be washed. People who have manicured locs, get them retwisted every so many weeks. White people do not have hair that can naturally loc and so when they try to achieve locs, their hair gets matted.

  • @trashcanjam
    @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому +1

    Hahaha spiky mess

  • @aotctd
    @aotctd 4 місяці тому

    LoL Imitation of how we grew up Like you also styled like how we grew up, that you have F V C K A L L to D O W I T H !

    • @danframpt0n
      @danframpt0n  4 місяці тому

      u forgot to take your dose this morning, sweety.

  • @free-the-whales
    @free-the-whales 7 місяців тому

    You would have a nostril ring

  • @godsfavoritechild47
    @godsfavoritechild47 7 місяців тому

    i heard it’s punk to pee pee your pants

  • @cimmeriakurt
    @cimmeriakurt 7 місяців тому

    Hey Dan, let's face it Sid Vicious had the best PUNK look. And that's the TRUE look. The CRAP you listen to sucks. You better adopt the Sid VICIOUS look so you can look the opposite of your nemesis FIN MCKENTY!! What do u say? #GETSOME

  • @circleboy8563
    @circleboy8563 7 місяців тому +1

    you should get a lip ring and nose piercing!!!

  • @electronlibre7356
    @electronlibre7356 Місяць тому

    Danfram…Être punk et s’afficher comme tel permettait dans les 80 de te reconnaître au milieu des gens lamda comme toi,être tatouer sur les mains ou le visage te poussait au ban de la société alors que maintenant des type comme toi se font tatouer sur les doigts et peuvent travailler dans une entreprise,les temps changes et on ne peux pas comparer les look aux travers des décennies,je n’ai pas tout compris à tes critiques mais si le punk n’avait pas été aussi une manière de se coiffer il serait peux être oublié comme le grunge,qui parle du grunge pas toi pourtant tu as un look de grunge ,il n’y a rien d’exitant dans le look grunge avec un baggie,une chemise claire et des basquettes ,les punkettes on un look sexy tes copines porte des habit ultra large asexués ,bon je te laisse à tes critiques j’ai fais la mienne

  • @chesspunk489
    @chesspunk489 7 місяців тому +1

    There is nothing wrong with dressing punk. It's like a way of honoring tradition. There is also nothing wrong with not dressing punk.

  • @joshsagar666
    @joshsagar666 7 місяців тому +2

    Love your videos, but you do look like you love to cry while listening to Weezer.

    • @trashcanjam
      @trashcanjam 7 місяців тому

      That’s mean

    • @18JR78
      @18JR78 7 місяців тому

      Hahahha.
      Btw it’s funny how punks complain about society judging based on looks but always judge others that don’t look the same. Punk is an oxymoron.

  • @stewart950
    @stewart950 7 місяців тому +1

    nice vid bro

  • @the_real_tay_loud2072
    @the_real_tay_loud2072 7 місяців тому

    Dan guys our age are pretty much OGs at this point we done our time. It’s like when you get to a certain age you stop actively gang bangin on the street as you already put in work for the squad. Thank you for not actually quitting Dan Frampton🫡💯

  • @ThinkerOnTheBus
    @ThinkerOnTheBus 7 місяців тому +1

    I've been listening to, purchasing music, and attending gigs since 1984, and to this day I have never owned a proper uniform, nor did I possess an appropriate costume. The biggest punk accoutrement I would ever don was my attitude. I didn't need to be recognized by others as being punk rock. I needed no such recognition, nor confirmation that I was punk . . . or punk enough. I surely borrowed a few stylings of various punk rock looks here and there, such as a flannel, but unlike many where it is always fashion, and never function, for me it was function. The function became the fashion for me, and in the case of a flannel, it was the perfect article of clothing to use during those transitional phases between summer and winter and back again, in order to stay warm enough, or cool enough while skating, or performing a whole variety of activities. If it got too warm, simply remove the flannel, and tie the sleeves around your waist. Throw in the t-shirt of some band I had seen recently, and also managed to acquire one of their t-shirts somehow, and which none of my frenemies managed to steal from me yet, and there you would have about the greatest extent of any punk outfit I had ever owned, or worn. I had no leather jacket (How many punks did you ever know who could afford a leather jacket???), no flight jacket, no red suspenders, no Dr. Martens, no chained wallet, no combat boots, no safety pin anything, no patchworked jeans, nor any patch adorned jean jacket. I never bought into the whole fashion BS, or the need to conform to a specific look. I had always believed that one of the true major tenets of punk rock was individualism, and nonconformity, not to mention possessing a DIY attitude, and way of life, with no concern for tradition or for established systems, nor the opinions which others held of me. That is why my biggest punk accoutrement was my attitude . . . because I never gave two $h175 what anybody else thought about me. I would never give such a meaningless thing, such as what others thought about me, any power over me . . . for if I were to be concerned about what others are thinking about me, then I forfeit power and control over to that thing, for I am allowing it to affect me on some level, and if it is affecting me, then it has some power over me, but I have the choice not to permit it to possess such power. Not conforming to any system, or pre-established social order, not giving a $h17 about what others thought, or more specifically, not allowing the actions or thoughts of other people to have any effect upon me, and doing things my way I had always thought was punk enough. I thought I was punk as ƒ[_]ck!!!!
    However, hanging outside a venue in Chicago, one typically chilly night, waiting to see fIREHOSE, Mike Watt walk past my friend, and I, heading inside of the venue, and without losing the pace of his stride, he looked over at me, and proclaimed, in a nonchalant, yet complimentary manner, "Nice flannel." I can only assume that for Mike, it was not a single article of some uniform or costume, but was about functionality.