"Their clothes were elaborately contrived to make the wearer appear as terrifying repugnant as possible, alluding to anything that would induce immediate outrage in the eye of the beholder...Hair shorn close to the skull and dyed any color so long as it didn't look natural, spiked up with Vaseline; nose, ears, cheeks, lips, and other extremities pierced with a plethora of safety pins, chains and dangling insignia; ripped and torn jumble sale shirts, strangled with a thin tie and mangled with predictable graffiti of song titles, perversions or Social Observations; black leather wrist bands and dog collars studded with silver spikes sometimes with leashes attached."
(Burchill and Parsons, The Boy Looked at Johnny,
Friedlander)
Through these many styles, Punks were able to stray from the norm; they refused to be "proper." They developed their own form of
c l a s s.
Punk rockers view themselves as different, and they go through many steps within their
i m a g e
to make sure of this.
T o g e t h e r,
they are able to develope something more. But from the black leather wristbands, to the predictable graffiti t-shirts, everything is symbolic of the beliefs of the Punk subculture.