White Power Skinhead - Style and Clothing

Style and Clothing

Skinheads of all types are known for wearing Dr. Martens or combat-style boots, flight jackets, jeans and suspenders (also known as braces). In contrast to the 1960s-style mod-influenced Trojan skinheads, however, white power skinheads typically wear higher boots, T-shirts instead of button-up shirts, and army trousers or jeans instead of Sta-Prest trousers. They usually crop their hair shorter than the 1960s-style skinheads — often to grade 0 length — or they shave their heads completely with a razor. White power skinheads generally have more tattoos than the skinheads of the 1960s, and these tattoos often feature explicitly racist content.

Some wear badges, chains or rings featuring Nazi or white power emblems. In Germany and The Netherlands, the Lonsdale clothing brand has been popular among some neo-Nazi skinheads (although the Lonsdale brand has been very popular with non-racist skinheads for decades). This is partly because the four middle letters of Lonsdale, NSDA, are almost the same as the abbreviation of Adolf Hitler's political party, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP). Punk-influenced Oi! skinheads dress similarly to white power skinheads, without the racist or neo-Nazi symbols.