– Hynde and Westwood, in latex and studs with razor-cut spiked hair, spell the future. Their categorical rejection of ‘pretty’ challenged ideals of femininity – and powerfully shattered the status quo in the process.Saturday Night Fever
, she wore pants and a spiked T-shirt, with Picasso-like squares on her face. ‘Some things I wore were quite near the knuckle,’ she once said. ‘People were apoplectic with rage.’with no top underneath, and is moved to First Class. This story – and the mac – is based on what Rooke relayed to Liza Bracey, the show’s costume designer. ‘She said, “It’s like a nicotine colour. I wore it to get to work, I didn’t change – I literally would be on the train in it.
Charged by Boyle with making the costumes as accurate as possible, Bracey became something of a style detective. ‘Steve is really into his clothes and he could remember quite a lot,’ she says. ‘He used to wear the hanky on his head because he didn’t like his hair.’ Eagle-eyed watchers will observe that Boon’s Lydon avoids denim because ‘he always said he never wore jeans’. Bracey notes that the enduring appeal of punk remains the way it ripped everything up and started again.
As Pistol documents, young Brits in the ’70s existed in a news cycle that included economic woes, sex scandals, industrial action, racist attacks, a corrupt Government and a jubilee. The parallels between then and now are striking – yet another reason this summer is a time when punk's ideas could inspire once again.It wouldn’t, of course, be very punk to get nostalgic – this is a movement about the moment, not looking back.
And when it comes to actual styling tricks to take from punk? A DIY approach, quite literally, is where it’s at. ‘When they were in America, the Sex Pistols did a lot of shopping in hardware stores and stuff,’ says Bracey. ‘Sid had this funny bracelet made out of some weird ladder chain. We should do that – go to Homebase and see what we can find.’
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