Hairdos of Defiance
Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, 2018.
ISBN: 9780999829806
Condition: As New
Hardcover
1,500 copies
6.75” x 9”, 68 pages.
An explosion of spiked fluorescent pink hair precariously balanced atop a young girl’s head, eyes painted black in the shape of an Egyptian goddess, slender neck choked by a black leather dog collar ringed with metal thorns, a ripped-up t-shirt barely concealing the flesh of her breasts: it had the same shocking effect on a family walking along London’s King’s Road in 1977 as it did on the explorers encountering the Pawnee Indians in 1541, something exotic and strange to behold. Having a punk hairstyle was a way to spit in the eye of polite society, to rebel and depart from the prevailing fashion trends. It was an emblem of non-conformity and a hairdo of defiance - until it wasn’t. —Excerpt from "On Mohawks" by Ed Templeton. Item #17862
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