Editing Punk rock (section)

===Visual and other elements===
{{Further|Punk fashion}}
[[File:Punk-27947.jpg|thumb|1980s punks with leather jackets and dyed mohawk hairstyles]]
The classic punk rock look among male American musicians harkens back to the T-shirt, motorcycle jacket, and jeans ensemble favored by American [[Greaser (subculture)|greasers]] of the 1950s associated with the [[rockabilly]] scene and by British [[Rocker (subculture)|rockers]] of the 1960s. In addition to the T-shirt, and leather jackets they wore ripped jeans and boots, typically [[Doc Martens]]. The punk look was inspired to shock people. [[Richard Hell]]'s more androgynous, ragamuffin look—and reputed invention of the [[safety pin#Culture|safety-pin aesthetic]]—was a major influence on Sex Pistols impresario [[Malcolm McLaren]] and, in turn, British punk style.<ref name="RHV">{{cite web |author1=Isler, Scott |author2=Robbins, Ira |title=Richard Hell & the Voidoids |work=[[Trouser Press]] |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=richard_hell_and_the_voidoids |access-date=2007-10-23 |archive-date=October 22, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022221054/http://trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=richard_hell_and_the_voidoids |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Strongman (2008), pp. 58, 63, 64; Colegrave and Sullivan (2005), p. 78.</ref> ([[John D Morton]] of Cleveland's [[Electric Eels (band)|Electric Eels]] may have been the first rock musician to wear a safety-pin-covered jacket.)<ref>See {{cite web|author=Weldon, Michael|title=Electric Eels: Attendance Required|url=http://www.cleveland.com/music/index_story.ssf?/music/more/local/cle/2/index.html|publisher=Cleveland.com|access-date=December 19, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123003715/http://www.cleveland.com/music/index_story.ssf?%2Fmusic%2Fmore%2Flocal%2Fcle%2F2%2Findex.html|archive-date=January 23, 2012}}</ref> McLaren's partner, fashion designer [[Vivienne Westwood]], credits [[Johnny Rotten]] as the first British punk musician to rip his shirt, and Sex Pistols bassist [[Sid Vicious]] as the first to use safety pins,<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Young, Charles M. |date=October 20, 1977| title=Rock Is Sick and Living in London |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thebeatles/articles/story/9437647/sex_pistols_rock_is_sick_and_living_in_london?source=thebeatles_rssfeed |access-date=October 10, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914225550/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thebeatles/articles/story/9437647/sex_pistols_rock_is_sick_and_living_in_london?source=thebeatles_rssfeed |archive-date=September 14, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> although few of those following punk could afford to buy McLaren and Westwood's designs so famously worn by the Pistols, so they made their own, diversifying the 'look' with various different styles based on these designs.

Young women in punk demolished the typical female types in rock of either "coy sex kittens or wronged blues belters" in their fashion.<ref>Habell-Pallan, Michelle (2012). "Death to Racism and Punk Rock Revisionism", ''Pop: When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt''. p. 247-270. Durham : Duke University Press. {{ISBN|9780822350996}}.</ref> Early female punk musicians displayed styles ranging from [[Siouxsie Sioux]]'s bondage gear to [[Patti Smith]]'s "straight-from-the-gutter androgyny".<ref name="Strohm">Strohm (2004), p. 188.</ref> The former proved much more influential on female fan styles.<ref>See, e.g., Laing (1985), "Picture Section", p. 18.</ref> Over time, tattoos, [[Body piercing|piercings]], and metal-studded and -spiked accessories became increasingly common elements of [[punk fashion]] among both musicians and fans, a "style of adornment calculated to disturb and outrage".<ref>Wojcik (1997), p. 122.</ref> Among the other facets of the punk rock scene, a punk's hair is an important way of showing their freedom of expression.<ref name="Sklar">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1bfwAAAAQBAJ|title=Punk Style|last=Sklar|first=Monica|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|date=2013|access-date=December 23, 2021|pages=5–6, 26–27, 37–39|isbn=9781472557339}}</ref> The typical male punk haircut was originally short and choppy; the [[Mohawk hairstyle|mohawk]] later emerged as a characteristic style.<ref>Wojcik (1995), pp. 16–19; Laing (1985), p. 109.</ref> Along with the mohawk, long spikes have been associated with the punk rock genre.<ref name="Sklar" />