Photo. Meeting after ten years of starting school. Summer 1981

According to the rules of correspondence, it was necessary to answer and somehow comment, and I wrote the following.

May 10, 2009 Ivan Shestakov
- Under the phrases "dandies" and "hippies" were meant, probably, the hairstyles of the guys?
If you think or imagine that at that time it was like it is now: what you want - then wear it as you like - and dress like that, and no one cares, then everything was not like that, I’ll even say it straight - it’s not like that at all. Before your appearance, it was everything: from October activists to Soviet and party workers in the person of at least the head teacher of the school. Because the appearance, as you know, is a reflection of your inner world, and the inner world of a communist fighter must be perfect and spotless. From here everything and misfortune.
Retreat. I remember that I myself was an ardent activist and participant in brainwashing. In fairness, I would like to note that young people really need to be taken care of: both us when we were young, and the youth now, and the youth in the future. But it is necessary to participate in their lives, create conditions and interest, and not drive them with the police under some invented and not real framework.
Let's get back to hair. It would seem that hair grows quickly, but for some reason it grows slowly, and here is the fashion for long hairstyles. The highlight was that the hair curled, no matter where and how - as long as it was not straight icicles. We went to the bath once a week. For a week, the hair from the dirt, who had it curled, began to straighten, and who did not curl, of course, began to curl. In this way it can be said that the flow of visitors to the common bath was regulated (just kidding).
We have been growing our hair since the seventh grade, finished the eighth grade, arrived in Sogra in the ninth grade - shaggy, as then we talked about ourselves (or rather about the hair). And in the ninth grade, a lesson in military training (military), and the former director of the school, a front-line soldier, Arkady Ivanovich Dunaev, conducts it. Each lesson in the military commissar began with the construction and examination of the appearance of the students. If you look at the guys from other places: Sogry, Palovy, Lambas, then they all have neat hairstyles, and from the Red Guys they are all shaggy. To part with hair - with the brainchild of many years of work, there is no strength - death is better!

Thought this comment would suffice, but it sparked a response:
«May 10, 2009 Alexander Morozov
- Yes, Ivan, you had harsh rules. We are still better. In fact, I don’t even remember that someone forbade wearing it, but the fact that the hair is dirty, here, just right, could, so to speak, shame. The bath is really once a week, in the evening they washed in a basin. And the story is interesting, no doubt, and we are waiting for the continuation. Do people agree? – and had to continue.

May 10, 2009 Ivan Shestakov
- Of course, it did not come to death. In the morning in the boarding school, before each lesson in the military commissar, an improvised hair salon was opened. In order not to part with the hair, they laid it, combed it, filled it with hairspray, in a word, licked it so that visually the hair really became shorter, and most importantly, it did not climb on the white collar of the shirt. "White Collar" is not for the sake of a red word, psychology was involved here. An unusual phenomenon, or rather, a pattern, Vitka-Formula noticed. If the shirt is not white, then for some reason your slicked hair did not suit Arkady Ivanovich, and he sent you straight from the lesson to put yourself in order, that is, to cut your hair. But if you put on a white shirt, and even with a tie, it's a completely different matter - your appearance, along with your hair, was impeccable, and you were set as an example. It would seem that this is the salvation from troubles - put on the guys white shirts, but ...
And there were only a couple of white shirts for the entire boarding school, and there weren’t enough of them for everyone who wanted to keep their coats. At that time, the store was not like it is now, you can buy whatever you want, at that time there was a shortage for everything, by the way, we lived just in developed socialism - I am describing the events of 1979 ... 81.
So we suffered for a whole year and still defended our hair: they put on white shirts for the military commissar, made hairstyles for a half-box, and after the lesson let down our curls, that is, “set up nets” for girls. It seemed to us guys that only curly hair attracts them, and if you part with them, then you have no attraction for classmates, that you immediately look like a white crow - it’s vulgar and ugly. Now, years later, you understand what a delusion it is - just real nonsense.

On this for now (that's not all) I finish about hairstyles. If interested, I will continue next time.

No one responded to this, but I continued.

May 10, 2009 Ivan Shestakov
- The tenth grade began with the same problems in the military commissar - the fashion for long hair did not go away, but only intensified, acquiring the outlines of participants in the VIA "Time Machine". For Petrovich and me, this made a huge sense. After all, the participants of the VIA, albeit a school one, to play dances and perform at concerts with neatly trimmed hair is the same as coming to a party meeting without a party card - an internal contradiction of essence and being. Everyday negotiations with Arkady Ivanovich led only to half success. Since he himself played the button accordion well, he made an exception for me, as an accordion player, and allowed me to wear long hair in a neat hairstyle. I don’t know what kind of “neat hairstyle” this is, but one white shirt came free. There was no question of strumming in the school ensemble - no concessions. The girls were indignant, indignant, but Petrovich, as a drummer-drummer, could not be defended.
Fortunately for the hair, Arkady Ivanovich soon left the military instructors, giving way to Pavel Yegorovich.
It should be noted that the Gorky school is much more democratic than the Ilesh one. In Gorkovskaya there was no powerful pressure of ideology: with the majority of teachers it was possible to talk, so to speak, on an equal footing and, most importantly, without an edifying tone on their part. Pavel Yegorovich was such a teacher. After all, the main thing in students is the desire to become better internally, and not externally. Having come to one of our rehearsals and listening to how we play, Pavel Yegorovich noticed this desire and at the next lesson of the military commissar made a remark to us about the length of the hair in the hope that we would start to resist. Of course we started. The girls joined us, and Pavel Egorovich, in the presence of the whole class, made an exception for Petrovich and me, taking the word from the rest of the guys that they would all put their hair in order. Of course, keeping a fig in their pocket, the guys gave this word. This is how our curls, and soon the curls of classmates, acquired a legal position. These curls can be seen in the photo, just after the end of the 10th grade. And already on August 25, I was cut bald, as I became a cadet of the Yegorievsk Aviation Technical School of Civil Aviation - tales about fashion did not pass there.

The story should be treated as a subjective description of events with elements of fiction. So about dirty hair, of course, fiction.

And a few years later, a response came to which for some reason I did not answer:
4 Jul 2011 Anton Zvyagin
- can you grow it again?))) (an element of fiction)

This is the end of the story with the photo posted on the VK network.

Today in the world society there are many different subcultures. Representatives of a particular subculture are called informals- they are distinguished by originality, unusualness, brightness. An informal person tries to demonstrate his individuality. We present a list of the main subcultures, and then we will talk about some of them in more detail.

• Alternatives
• anime people
• Bikers
• vanilla
• Glamor
• Gopnik
• grungers
• graffitiers
• Cyber ​​Goth
• Metalworkers
• New Age (New Age)
• Punks
• Pedovki
• Rastafans
• Ravers
• rockers
• rappers
• Skinheads
• dudes
• straight age
• Tolkienists
• Trash Models
• Freaks
• Football fans
• hackers
• Hippie
• hipsters

Alternatives

In the early 90s, an alternative subculture was formed, which included rappers, metalheads and punks. Representatives of this subculture are distinguished by friendliness towards representatives of other directions. It is believed that the subculture was formed thanks to the group Rage Against The Machine.

The appearance of alternatives is catchy, they are quite easy to distinguish from representatives of other subcultures. As a rule, they walk around in piercings and wear wide clothes. Representatives of this subculture do not have any special ideology.

Bikers

The biker subculture originated around the 60s and 70s. Representatives of the current - bearded long-haired men - cannot imagine their life without a motorcycle, beer and rock music. These attributes are the hallmarks of bikers.

As a rule, they ride in groups and each of the bikers is a member of the club. By the stripes on the clothes, they determine which club he is a member of. This is a distinctive sign, thanks to which bikers differ from each other.

The biker subculture adheres to its own value system, which is strikingly different from the generally accepted norms of a “civilized society”.

Gopnik

The gopnik subculture began to exist in the last years before the collapse of the USSR. The ideology and behavior of representatives of this trend are similar to the behavior of hooligans. A distinctive feature of gopniks is a tendency to violence, a low level of intelligence and prison slang, which in terms of complexity of understanding can sometimes be compared with the complex languages ​​of the world.

Gopniks, as a rule, like to listen to music in the style of prison chanson. They are often aggressive towards other subcultures. In particular, such movements as emo, goths, rappers, gopniks do not recognize and conflict with their representatives.

Gopniks cut their hair short and wear tracksuits. These are the main distinguishing features of the adherents of this subculture.

Goths

The formation of the ready subculture originates from music. Distinctive features of the Goths is the predominance of black clothing, girls go with dark makeup. Representatives of the subculture wear accessories symbolizing death - teeth, crosses, pentagrams, etc. The Goths do not have their own ideology.

The mood of the adherents of this trend is dominated by decadence and a gloomy look. The Gothic movement spawned a separate subculture - Satanists.

Metalworkers

The subculture of metalheads originated in the 1960s and spread throughout almost the entire world. The impetus for the emergence of the subculture was music in the style of Heavy Metal. Metalheads, as a rule, are called fans of heavy rock music and all varieties of metal.

In the image of a representative of the subculture there are leather clothes, images of skulls, a lot of metal jewelry on the body (chains, spikes, bracelets, etc.), heavy boots, ear piercings, bandanas. Ideology and philosophy, as such, they do not, all beliefs and views are focused entirely on music.

Punks

The punk subculture began to take shape as early as 1930 in England. The first punks were people from the poorer areas of Wales. They were engaged in robberies, fights, brawls. The ideology and worldview of punks is reduced to anarchy.

Distinctive features of punks are the Mohawk - a symbol of the punk movement, as well as leather jackets worn on the naked body, torn T-shirts, a large number of piercings on the face.

dudes

The subculture of dudes was formed in the second half of the 40s - 50s. At this time, young people dressed in defiant clothes appeared on the streets of cities. Representatives of the movement were distinguished by cynicism in their judgments and indifference to Soviet norms of behavior.

The dudes of those times protested against the standard stereotypes of behavior, uniformity in clothing. The subculture undoubtedly left a bright imprint on the Soviet era.

Stylish men wore tight trousers ("pipes"), long double-breasted jackets, bright shirts combined with colorful ties, pointed boots and dark glasses.

The girls decorated their clothes with sewn bows and lots of jewelry. Stilyagi, as a rule, were the children of high-ranking officials or professors.

Freaks

The subculture of freaks was formed in the 20th century in North America. Representatives of the current adhere to the main idea - to stand out among the crowd of people around them. For these purposes, not only clothes are used, but also behavior and philosophy. The term "freak" comes from the English word Freak, which means - a strange person. Each follower of the subculture seeks to create his own unique image.

Freaks are ardent adherents of piercing - they massively pierce all sorts of places for themselves, and also cover their bodies with tattoos with images, inscriptions and patterns.

Hippie

The hippie subculture originated in America in the 1960s. In a short period of time, it quickly spread throughout the world, but as a separate movement, it ceased to exist closer to the 1980s. Representatives of the subculture were distinguished by their peacekeeping position (pacifists), they opposed nuclear weapons and any violence.

Hippies were involved in the distribution of drugs among young people, ostensibly to expand their consciousness.

Representatives of the hippies wore loose clothes, a large number of baubles on their hands and long hair.

Who is who- Punks, Stilyagi, Hippies, Tolkienists, Ravers, Rockers, Rappers, Hackers, KSP, Football fans.

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Nevertheless, they have formed their own language of expression, street styles, fashion, art, communications, and a self-sufficient music market.

Hippie

The heyday of the movement based on music lovers, psychedelic and hardrock addictions, which gave rise to an all-Union system of registrations, forest and beach camps, home concerts, as well as hitchhiking, fell on the mid-70s. By the beginning of the 80s, hippie fashion swept the capitals; in Moscow, hippie communication covered the Boulevard Ring, Arbat and Mayakovsky Square. The ranks of the movement were joined by Beatleman students, street bards and a generation of children of the Soviet intelligentsia who were engaged in unofficial creativity.

Hippie 1984

Hippie. Not far from Tourist, 1988

Hippie. At the entrance to Saigon, 1987

In the 1980s, the movement was revived due to the interest of young people in retro style. These groups appeared in Leningrad under the name of "secretists" in Leningrad, and in Moscow they were called "bravist" (after the names of the groups Bravo and Secret)

Stilyagi. Anton Teddy and comrades, 1984 Photo by Dmitry Konrad

Stilyagi. Rus Ziggel and Teddy Boys. Leningrad, 1984. Photo by Dmitry Konrad

Wide Stilyagi. Moscow, 1987

The new wave movement received a rather vague manifestation in Soviet society. Initially based on music lovers in the form of electronic experiments and the aesthetics of post-punk "new romantics", domestic new wavers compiled their external aesthetics on the basis of "clean style", hairstyles of a certain type and make-up, with elements absorbed from other already established movements, ranging from breaking glasses, ending with the post-punk "dark style".

After 1985, following the partial legalization of foreign non-radical styles, the popularization of disco and the rise of the metal wave, the general mass of the "new wave" was divided into two camps. Disco fans of foreign pop and branded items and labeled "poppers" because of the fascination with pop music of the 80s. And more advanced newwave mods who were in close contact with the creative underground, experimenting within mod and post-punk traditions.

Newwavers. Leningrad, 1984

Newwavers. Newwave at MEPhI, 1983

Newwavers. At the Lighthouse, 1990

In the early 80s, the echoes of the hip-hop movement reached the Soviet youth, they manifested themselves in the form of the "breakers" movement (according to the local definition of the dance style). Originally a lifestyle that combined skateboarding and disco dancing, this style was represented by a small student fashion environment and the "golden youth" of the South-West of Moscow. But by the mid-80s, after the opening of youth cafes and the release of the film "Dancing on the Roof", the breakers were presented only as a dance subculture, with their experiments in the field of appearance.

Breakers. Arbat, 1986. Photo by Sergey Borisov

Breakers. Arbat, 1987. Photo by Yaroslav Maev

Break dance, 1987

The style itself became widespread thanks to the pan-European revival of classic rock and roll and the beginning of the psychobilly movement in the second half of the 80s. In the Soviet Union, this manifestation was superimposed on the New Waver costume fashion, but already after 1986 it became isolated, partly in the Kupchinsky underground (Leningrad), partly rocker (Moscow, Moscow Art Theater), and among the Elvis Presley fan club (Moscow) with party places at the station. metro Revolution Square and the Catacombs (the ruins of the Greek Hall)

Rockabilly. Hedgehog and Moor, 1987

Rockabilly. Leningrad, 1987

Rockabilly. Rockabilly on the Arbat, 1989

The term "rockers" appeared in the early 80s and was originally applied to Soviet fans of rock music. But, already since 1984, the label "rocker" has stuck with hard rock fans, who gravitate towards external styling similar to British "coffee bar cowboys" and American bike clubs. In September 1984 (Coverdale's birthday), the term was raised to the flag by a group of heavy rock fans at the TsPKO. Gorky, and later spread to the first moto gangs of Moscow "Black aces" and "Street wolfs", then to all moto associations until 1989.

Rockers, 1987

Rockers, in the backyard of the Moscow Art Theater, 1988

Rockers, Night out, 1988

Actually, the term "metal-worker" itself originated at philophonic parties in the early 80s, when at the turn of the decades the rhythms of the bands, which were previously known as "hard rock" by Soviet standards, changed. The “heavy metal” slogan, traced from foreign magazines, initially applied to “kisomaniacs” and other fans of “hardrock” of the early 80s. Metal corrosion”, “E.S.T.” and other groups of fans began to be called "metalheads"

Metalworkers from Gorky, 1987

Metalworkers. VDNH, 1986

Metalworkers. XMP-89, Omsk

The most ideological and, at the same time, apolitical movement received its first manifestations at the turn of the 80s. Not possessing the completeness of visual information about foreign analogues, but understanding the effectiveness of the artistic caricature lifestyle, this phenomenon manifested itself in the form of parodic street idiocy, artistic foolishness, gradually acquiring non-Soviet paraphernalia, music and art.

Being the most “offensive” social manifestations for the Soviet menclature (frankly discrediting the image of a Soviet citizen in front of foreign tourists), “Soviet punk” was subjected to the most intense pressure from the Komsomol, the police and gopots. All this led to radicalization; the fusion of punks and rockers, the formation of hardcore, krusty and cyberpunk styles, with the first "Iroquois" on deranged heads of carriers. To the surprise of the representatives of the Soviet punk underground, when information gaps were discovered in the Iron Curtain, it turned out that these manifestations coincided with the advanced global subcultural trends.

Punks. DK Gorbunovo, 1987

Punks. Leningrad, 1986. Photo by Natalia Vasilyeva

Punks. Moscow, 1988

With the filing of the first "new dudes" and having received its starting impetus from the mod movement of the 60s, the USSR received a reverse vector of development from Soviet punk to vintage motifs of the past. At the same time, without losing radicalism at all, the Soviet “mod styling” of the period of avant-garde artistic movements of the 80s became a hallmark for many participants in musical and art projects, uniting diverse artistic people who gravitated towards music omnivorousness and let through all the latest innovations from fashion and music. Such characters, disparagingly referred to in the art environment as “mods”, participated in most key shows and performances, were carriers of the latest fashionable and near-cultural information and often shocked the population with costumes and punk antics parodying socio-menklotura costumes.

Fashion. Moscow, 1988

Fashion. Moscow, 1989. Photo by Evgeny Volkov

Fashion. Chelyabinsk, early 80s

A short-term manifestation of this intermediate foreign style of the 70s occurred at the end of the 80s, in connection with the rallying of radical informal circles during the opposition to pressure and the influx of a new wave of truly marginal elements, following the popularization of informal movements at the turn of 87-88 (accurately after a turning point in street battles with "lubers" and gopniks). It is worth noting that such manifestations in a caricatured ironic form were present in the vastness of our homeland, when radical informals dressed up in protoskinhead outfits, cut their heads bald out of harm, and crowded in crowded places. Frightening with their appearance the policemen and the townsfolk, who in all seriousness listened to Soviet propaganda, that de all informals are fascist thugs. The hardmodes of the late 80s were a sublimation of the punk, rockabilly and militaristic style, and of course, having never heard about how they should be called according to the stylistic classification, they preferred the self-name "streetfighters" and "militarists".

Hardmodes. Red Square, 1988

Hardmodes. Moscow Zoo, 1988

Psychobilly manifested itself to a greater extent in Leningrad at the turn of the 90s, together with the Swidlers and Meantreitors groups, when groups of young people formalized this direction musically, standing out from the rockabilly environment. But even before that, there were individual characters who fell outside the framework of the new subcultural leagues and preferred rock and roll polymelormania. In terms of dress code, this attraction was close to punk aesthetics.

Psychobills. In the courtyard of a rock club, 1987. Photo by Natalia Vasilyeva

Psychobills. Leningrad, 1989

Psychobills. Muscovites visiting Leningraders, 1988. Photo by Evgeny Volkov

During the clashes with gopniks and "lubers" in the period from 1986 to 1991, special active groups emerged in the rock and heavy metal environment, which at the turn of the 90s were transformed from motto gangs into the first motto clubs. With its visual paraphernalia, modeled on foreign bike clubs, and on heavy motorcycles, modernized by hand or even post-war trophy samples. Already by the 90th year in Moscow it was possible to distinguish the groups "Hell Dogs", "Night wolves", "Сossacs Russia". There were also less long-term motorcycle associations, such as "ms Davydkovo". The self-name bikers, as a symbol of the separation of this stage from the rocker past, was first assigned to the group rallied around Alexander Surgeon, and then spread to the entire motto movement, gradually covering many cities of the post-Soviet space

Bikers. Surgeon, 1989. Photo by Petra Gall

Bikers. Kimirsen, 1990

Bikers. Night Wolves on Pushka, 1989. Photo by Sergey Borisov

Bikers. Theme, 1989

A phenomenon no less multifaceted than the aesthetics of punk, Soviet beatnik originates from the distant 70s, when fashionable decadents who visited haunts, grew their hair below their shoulders and dressed up in leather jackets and "beatlovki" fell under this term. This term also included “labukhs” - musicians playing music to order in Soviet restaurants, and simply people outside some kind of “leagues”, leading an isolated and immoral, from the point of view of Soviet aesthetics, lifestyle. This trend by the early 80s was aggravated by a casual appearance, defiant behavior and the presence of some kind of distinctive element in clothing. Be it a hat or a scarf or a bright tie.

Beatniks. Bitnichki, Timur Novikov and Oleg Kotelnikov. Photo by Evgeny Kozlov

Beatniks. Parade on the first of April, Leningrad-83

Beatniks. Chelyabinsk, late 70s

The movement, which originated in the late 70s and consisted of “kuzmichi” (simple stadium visitors) and traveling elite who accompanied teams to matches in other cities, by the beginning of the 80s had found its own regional leaders, acquired “gangs”, merchandise and turned into in football communication. Following the quick start of Spartak fans (the most famous center of the party in the early 80s was the Sayany beer bar at the Shchelkovskaya metro station), which held their city actions and parades, “gangs” around other teams began to appear just as quickly.

Fans. Moscow, 1988. Photo by Victoria Ivleva

Fans. Moscow-81. Photo by Igor Mukhin

Fans. Acceptance of a Zenith fan in Dnepropetrovsk-83

A peculiar direction formed at the junction of the bodybuilding hobby and the youth supervision program.

Initially assigned to a local group of people from Lyubertsy, who often come to the capital to places of recreation for young people, the name “Lyubera” has been interpolated since 87 not only to heterogeneous groups that do not have connections with each other, but also to larger groups that concentrated during this period in the Central Park of Culture them. Gorky and Arbat. Zhdan, Lytkarinsky, state farm Moscow, Podolsky, Karacharovsky, Naberezhnye Chelnovskaya, Kazan - this is an incomplete list of the “brotherhood near Moscow”, which tried to control not only the designated territories, but also other hot spots and railway station squares.

Initially encouraged by the authorities, who hoped to place these formations in the canvas of the "people's squad", these groups did not have a common dress code except for sportswear, but also had conflicting interests consolidated only as part of the aggression against fashionistas and "informals".

Luber. 1988

Luber. Africa and Lubera, 1986 Photo by Sergey Borisov

Luber. Lubera and Podolsky in the TsPKO them. Gorky, 1988