HALFMOON T SHIRT – RUDE GIRL – BLACK

As is the case with most youth movements, the Rude Boy and Rude Girl subculture was quick to develop and fracture; a progression which was accelerated by mass emigration from the West Indies to the UK. The differentiation between Rude Boys and Mods gradually blurred as the two interacted in Britain’s working-class neighbourhoods. Taking 1960s mod styles and Rude Boy music and fashion, the original skinhead came into being. The initial skinheads were avid listeners of ska, rocksteady and early reggae; before reggae became heavily focused upon Rastafari culture.) As noted by Dick Hebdige in Subculture: The Meaning of Style: