Figure 1.--Here we see Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) with his Skinhead hair cut, suspenders, jeans, and boots. |
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Roland Rat, Margaret Thatcher; Rubik's Cubes, the Royal Wedding; aerobics, skinheads... It's 1983, and the schools are breaking up for summer. Shaun is 12 and a bit of a loner, growing up with his mum in a grim coastal town, his dad killed fighting in the Falklands War. On his way home from school where he's been tormented all day for wearing flares, he runs into a group of skinheads, who against expectations turn out to be friendly and take him under their wing. "This is England" is set in the 1980s and covers skinhead fashions. Skinhead braces were purely for show and not used to hold up trousers as the braces that their grandfathers wore had been! Skinheads started in the late 1960s and among older boys - those working - but gradually those fashions came down to younger boys and school uniform manufacturers started catering for that type of clothing. There was a revival of skinheads in the 1980s when this film is set. Thomas Turgoose is the star of the film playing Shaun.
Roland Rat, Margaret Thatcher; Rubik's Cubes, the Royal Wedding; aerobics, skinheads... It's 1983, and the schools are breaking up for summer. "This is England" is set in the 1980s and covers skinhead fashions.
Thomas Turgoose is the star of the film playing Shaun.
Shaun is 12 and a bit of a loner, growing up with his mum in a grim coastal town, his dad killed fighting in the Falklands War. On his way home from school where he's been tormented all day for wearing flares, he runs into a group of skinheads, who against expectations turn out to be friendly and take him under their wing.
Skinhead braces were purely for show and not used to hold up trousers as the braces that their grandfathers wore had been! You see the star Thomas Turgoose wearing a crombie coat and the older skinheads wearing various fashions like trilby hats, denim jackets and bleached jeans that the younger boy wouldn't have all of.
There were also skinhead girls who appear in the film.
Skinheads started in the late 1960s and among older boys - those working - but gradually those fashions came down to younger boys and school uniform manufacturers started catering for that type of clothing. There was a revival of skinheads in the 1980s when this film is set.
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