It's rare I think "AWESOME" when I see a link to anything connected to Buzzfeed, but when I saw THIS, Visible Girls: London's Lost Female Subcultures (sussed via Dangerous Minds, actually), I clicked through. These pictures are awesome and I really suggest y'all all take a peek... um, you gotta click here to view the pictures via Flickrâ˘, 'cause I have NO legal right to post a teaser photo!
In the early 1980s, photographer Anita Corbin documented the âinformal uniformsâ of young womenâs subcultures across London. Corbin photographed rude girls, rockabillies, mods, skinheads, and some âless definedâ female groups including soul, rasta, punk and futurist, as well as those involved âin and around the womenâs liberation movement.â Corbin discovered that for these young women belonging to a subculture was not just a weekend hobby but a whole way of life.
I'm sure Corbin wouldn't be surprised that many of the '80s "subculture" kids, well, the "rude girls, rockabillies, mods, skinheads, soul, rasta, punk, and futurist" women who I know, are still dressing, and living, grown-up lives in their teenage styleâtho' now, perhaps in a slightly LARGER size. Funny thing is, now, many of 'em have kids who aren't always so keen on their parents' "outsider," or rather "old-timey," interests.