BBC Archive | 1982: '80s TEENAGERS on CLOTHES and CONFORMITY | 16 Up | Voice of the People | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
A veritable smorgasbord of UK youth subcultures - including punks, skinheads, new romantics, rockabillys, mod revivalists, rockers, goths and almost everything in between - discuss their clothes and how the wider society reacts to them.

Why do they dress the way they do? Should they have to dress differently to get a job? Is there pressure to conform to the norms of their tribe? How do these disparate groups view each other?


Clip taken from 16 Up: How Do I Look?, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 27 October, 1982.





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