Boots, Braces & Mean Ugly Faces

A selection of Skinhead Photos & Cartoons from the late 1960s up to the present day accompanied by some Great Ska/Reggae Classics.

[@davidlester7066]

Been a Skinhead since 79 in the second wave and married a Skin girl.....a skinhead love affair made in heaven!

[@richardpeacock7195]

I remember back in the late 60's coming home after getting a number 1 hair cut and my mum just stood there and cried her eyes out. Now I'm 70 and still love the sound and clothes of those days.

[@carloakley5367]

My mum said stick your head out the window you have a tane on your face and not on your head she put her sunglasses on

[@carloakley5367]

I had one back then still got now .Airways skin

[@danieljames7037]

Always a skin ( peanut, suede) in heart and mind.Still today I still wear Ben Sherman And Fred Perry's

[@billymartin1842]

Been skinhead since early teens ...am 59 now & still a skinhead got my scooter all mirrored up living on Costa Blanca for 12 years now ...it never leaves ya ...OI OI.....

[@billymartin1842]

Skinheads can do what they want ......cant see the reason in your comment

[@swifty8538]

Keep the faith Forever

[@AtZero138]

Oi Oi Oi.. 50,, Stay Rude, Stay Roots and Keep Your Boots Stomping.. Cheers from Southern California

[@user-de6io5fh6b]

Nice one great to hear im 53 still a skin since 84 west yorkshire mirrored up vespa not ridden in a while though mainly into oi and punk but boat loads of reggae and ska used to listen to that all the time saw desmond dekker in leeds before he passed away shortly after my dear ma passed x

[@keithwilson6709]

Was a Skin 1969 thru to 1973 loved those years Levis,Bensherman,Staypress Trousers & Braces Leather soled Royal Brougues Levis Cord Jacket & Harringtons First Record bought Elizabethen Reggae by Boris Gardener followed by Young Gifted & Black Bob & Marcia Griffiths,Then went thru all the Trojan Volumns so cool .music

[@andybarry3435]

It gets in your bones once you've been around it, the style and beat always calls you back.

[@carloakley5367]

Fuckin dose mate just git a donkey jacket for my birthday Ben shermal before Christmas then the dockmartins. Back to are was .can't shake it off 😂😂😮😮😮😮

[@howatdsavage5988]

I was a Skinhead. Loved the music. Still play it today,on my Portagram record player with a massive speaker. I have hundreds of reggae singles from the start of 69. Some are worth a fortune. Would never sell them. Reggae got soul man!!. So says Toots and Maytals. I actually see the Pioneers,at the California ballroom Dunstable. It was a special reggae night. Trojan lps given free to the best dancers. Also see Bob Marley and the wailers,along with Johnny Nash 1972 at the Cali. Long live Reggae!!.

[@skaman2709]

Never leave's you it's for life

[@christophergeering3543]

Once a skinhead always a skinhead standard boots and. braces long live ska ❤

[@AtZero138]

Only Punkers,, go in and out,, Skinhead is and will always be Real to those of us,, Stay Rude, Stay Roots and Keep Your Boots Stomping.. cheers from Orange County CA..

[@ozzispurs8461]

When i was a skinhead late 60-early 70 in Swindon we were just skinheads did,nt matter what colour or race you where as long as you supported the same football you where alright

[@johnsalvidge4131]

Absolutely 😮😮 Skinheads are the business 😮😮

[@neugbauer6681]

Miss the old days

[@seansands424]

Good old days miss them as well

[@stephenporter5796]

I remember when I was about 12, very early 70's - I looked pretty young for my age and went to the barber and wanted him to do a skinhead cut for me. He said, "bring a letter from your mother first". A pretty humiliating experience at the time

[@paulreynolds9003]

It definitely needs a revival. But not sure theses kids are up to it now a days.

[@danielmiyahara9089]

Rudeboy here, got much love for my skinheads, basically a skin without the cut. Working-class, braces, docs and classic reggay! Tho I love my hats and dressing smart like the rudies

[@leepageuk]

I was a skinhead in 1980 - 1981 and I had a proper shaved head. Looking back it's odd to see the men skinheads from the late 60's onwards having longer hair than the mods and hippies

[@peterhyatt4784]

I was born 71 , first record i owned was one step beyond , madness . Been at it since , love the scene all of it, scooters, mod , music is life ! Keep on , you know. Ph.

[@simonparry3823]

Same born in 71 Madness one off many brilliant bands SLF, Sham69, Cock Sparrer, The Specials could go and on

[@glennoc8585]

Yeah but madness was not skin music infact they hated skin heads

[@pauldunneska]

@@glennoc8585 Listen to absolutely Madness album and songs like Close Escape. That's is pure Skinhead music.

[@pauldunneska]

@@glennoc8585 Baggytrousers is another classic Skinhead song.

[@AtZero138]

Very first Record,, album plus Player,, Sister got for me,, 1983 for my 10th birthday.. Cheers from Orange County California 🇺🇸 and Oi Oi Oi

[@willgriffin1810]

Some absolutely fantastic old pictures here! The skinhead style looks just as great today as it did back then. Me and my friends were always more into Punk and Oi!, though I can still appreciate these cool old sounds. Maybe it's because our heyday was in the States during the 80's. Anyhow, the pics and memories are priceless, Thanks!

[@70tezskin]

Late 60s Early 70s Skinhead . Guisborough North East England. Still a Skinhead today at 68. Skinheads Life Would Never Be The Same.

[@johnsalvidge4131]

Once a Skinhead...... ALWAYS A SKINHEAD....ITS😮in the BLOOD 😮😮😮😊😊

[@tonylelli3057]

Great days! Please take me back 1972 when Skinheads first appeared. Managed school and two jobs, paper round and the market just to pay for my gear. Crombie from Burtons when they were still a tailor!

[@carloakley5367]

They were there in 1969👍

[@Occident.]

1968 mate. Started in East end of London. I was first a Skin aged 11 in 1971.

[@kevinmorgan8278]

I was a skinhead back in the 80s best days of my life.

[@3sjstill438]

im a 14 year old skin now mate, and im loving it.

[@briandoherty3249]

Its what us British do best. Skins, mods, punks, casuals etc

[@jimmylad8529]

Still keeping the faith either way.... proper times.... proper people.. proper life ✊🏻

[@ronaldwallace6383]

I was also a skinhead back in the eightees still am today bud but it was brilliant when you were king of the jungle and oi music ruled the waves skinhead till I die oi Oi mate

[@glennoc8585]

@@ronaldwallace6383 haha oi was a sub culture it's was never really aired on the radio.

[@MegaMary1952]

Monkey spanner /just brought back a lot of lovely memories

[@maz7714]

I was a scooter girl in the 80,s ,but always drawn into there choons 👌🙌💯😎 gotta say still get that urge to dance away to alot on this track 🙌😁

[@swifty8538]

Omg I so want to get another vespa I miss the scene so much I was an original rude boy scooter boy from London now living in Essex

[@billymartin1842]

It never leaves ya Maz

[@maz7714]

@@billymartin1842 best days of our lives 👌💯,,, 😁👌x

[@carloakley5367]

Get dancing then 1👍👍🍺

[@birnbeck4646]

That's fookin' Slade at 2.53 !

[@daveanderson6315]

Been into this since 82 love music and style of clothing and two tone

[@ronaldwallace6383]

I also became a skin in 82 oi music before that madness and the specials 55 now still wear my harringtons and dms when I go to the pub skinhead till we die pal

[@MickyO567]

Some great photos & tunes........ but 3:30 oh dear braces AND a belt 💥

[@patrickscrimger5062]

I was a skin in 69 in Sunderland the music in the club's was motown !!!

[@glennoc8585]

That was more northern soul though

[@f-wingkingunclejohn6199]

Weh hey haway the Lads I'm from Sunderland and I was born in Sunderland in '69 and was a skinhead/rudeboy from' 79 all through the 80s and 90s. Two-tone era was class and the music is unbeatable but I do like all the old stuff aswell. FTM.

[@NUFC4LIF3]

Skinhead from Newcastle

[@andyocallaghan6]

Came off Brighton beach, next to the Palace pier in the late 60’s very early seventies, got stopped by a Skin head and his bird and the cocky fucker stubbed his cigarette out on my inatube rubber ring and burst it! I was a boy, he was an older teen. I laugh about it now ha ha... good old days!

[@carloakley5367]

Get over it 🙄

[@louisevintsos4346]

Waouh !... Ça ne me rajeunit pas !... C'était le bon temps 😃

[@jenseber2058]

Tolle Bilder und die Musik ist total super da zu!

[@tonymiles4779]

Awesome pics ....

[@ronaldwallace6383]

I'm a 80 tees skinhead influenced by two tone bands first then oi came along that was a game changer tunes were hard and fast loved it and still listen to my old oi albums today and a lot of other brilliant oi bands on KZbin been down to the great skinhead Reunion in Brighton great weekend seeing all the old and young skins and all the clobber that they wear smart clothes and brilliant music and it's friendly no hassle whatsoever Blackpool Rebellion is brilliant to old punk and oi bands playing skinhead is about brotherhood the fashion and the music the rest is a load of bollocks not true skins oi Oi to the end

[@markwilliams7461]

Telll that to the fky wokes mob

[@AtZero138]

All Respect to you and your's,, Cheers from Orange County California 🇺🇸,, 50 now,, Madness One Step Beyond was my first record.. 10th birthday.. Oi Oi Oi,, modern Oi is alive as well.. also..

[@Arische234]

I was just listening to this song in gta San Andreas , proof the phone listens to us

[@mickeycrilly1839]

My older brother was a proper skin,man he would do some mad shit,now he like us all is just old ha ha

[@jakeblues5854]

remeber being able to travel from one end of england to the other and across visiting other skins an dbeing looked after then returning the favour when they came to manchester great times

[@markwatson4043]

You can still do it if you look close enough - remember there are Skins in Scotland (you are welcome here anytime) . . . .

[@jakeblues5854]

Sooz mate really did mean all of UK stranrae Dunbar and every where in between

[@bluenose007]

Original Skinheads never had hair cuts as short as they do now. Crew cut

[@Millwall77]

Things evolve you know....

[@madness7662]

Best time of my life 80s loved it Would i go back In a Heart Beat Keeper Ska 😎😎😎

[@peerfridge2391]

lots of love! keep the faith! cheers, mate!

[@powderboy75]

Toots. Legend. Met him in Kingston

[@daveanderson6315]

I've always been into Trojan northern soul and two tone

[@glennoc8585]

Not a skin them more a 2 tone rude Boy

[@briandyers8981]

The Skinhead Culture is Not' a fashion statement or a Whimsical fad..It is an inner Personal identity Culture and lifestyle.

[@piotrkalwasinski6986]

Love ska👍

[@petal777]

Puts me in a good mood 🥰

[@marcushofmann4118]

2:56 Slade 😎

[@howey935]

I got suspended from junior school for 2 weeks for getting a skinhead, the 2 weeks was so it could grow back a little because I got my brother to do it with my dads razor (my dad went mental and my head was covered in little nicks where my brother kept cutting me).

[@iamme776]

Aged 13 my parents dared me to and I got a no.2. Boots got rolled up once I was out of the house, being slightly uncertain but mates all egging each other on we strutted around the town being seen.

[@tartanass6757]

I seen skinheads when I was 10 In 70s got one straight away Still in my blood today ✊🏻

[@carloakley5367]

More bits of tissue on your head than your chin👍🍺

[@laptakyrenia8264]

I was scared of skinheads bk in the day

[@simonhereshoping3980]

"Everyone" i wish i could go back to those days No surveillance,no phones,no computers, no health and safety crap.....i dont want to depress y'all but you can shove this world as it is now Skins forever!! And you over there " you cant come in yr hairs too long"

[@howatdsavage5988]

Absolutely mate. I agree with everything you say.The world has gone to shit. I was a skinhead from 1969. Loved it.Best years of my life. Still have the records,and play them regular.

[@kevirish37]

I was a Skinhead in Belfast back in the 80s, great memories

[@madness7662]

Was but once you hear the tunes it never leaves ye up the 80s

[@gazpara1]

A Skinhead in the Eighties ?????

[@kimwest6718]

GARY BROCKLEBANK ?

[@wataboutya9310]

I was a skinhead in Portadown in the early seventies!

[@pauldunneska]

@@wataboutya9310 A loyalist Skinhead. Hate that.

[@mickey259]

Memory’s 😁

[@smdphotogphotography7726]

Coming back with a vengeance 😉

[@eddieoi8906]

Some of us never left mate...

[@andybigbs9466]

I was a mod…had lots of run ins with east London skins.

[@JohnnyAngel777]

Do not love or hate anyone based on the color of their skin, eyes, hair, etc. Race, religion, where they were born, and sexuality should not be a deciding factor. Personal ideology or how they treat me? Now, that is another story...

[@steaks652]

Bang on Johnny, bang on.

[@cocoaplayz4631]

54 46 rip toots

[@jamespage547]

awesome oi oi

[@johnburns33]

Oi oi brilliant this James love the music

[@briansmith6515]

Good days mr Day...👍

[@ianday4374]

Thank You Mr Smith, I hope you, Charmaine and the Fam are fine

[@boffwozere]

Haha... second tune ... Harry J And the all stars ..... Liquidator........ guaranteed to cause a punch up at the local village hall disco , p.s Skin girls were pure class and hard as fuck 👍

[@markwilliams7461]

Whats than meen u didnt get jump

[@boffwozere]

@@markwilliams7461 sorry I don’t understand I only speak English

[@billymartin1842]

& a lot of skin girls were stunning Gary

[@daveturnbull720]

Great soundtrack

[@monsterhunt7272]

Oi oi from malaysia...

[@kathybarry2765]

Bring it on.♥️ unfortunately I was a bit to young. But I tried. Makeing up for it now. Got the head shaved and the boots...

[@swifty8538]

Good girl keep the faith always from an original rudeboy

[@birnbeck4646]

And at 6.16 !

[@wediactis]

Classic

[@urareknaw]

Spotted Symond

[@sputumtube]

2 mins 53 seconds and again at 6 mins 17 seconds - SLADE (Left to right Jimmy Lea, Don Powell, Dave Hill, Noddy Holder).... :)

[@petersmith4526]

Oi Oi to all the old Boro boot boys and NTP skins, a way of life boys Wolfie

[@3sjstill438]

14 year old skin here, keep the faith mates.

[@eddieoi8906]

And what faith would that be then son?

[@3sjstill438]

Eddie Oi the skinhead faith mate

[@petersmith4526]

Keep the boots polished and keep your hair short be proud of who and what you are from a 57 year old skin

[@3sjstill438]

peter smith respect mate.

[@southyorkshiremilitarynerd2254]

Ha same 'ere mate

[@roycarder6179]

True skinheads where cool ...and not racist ...and most dressed smart....black crombie coat with the red sash hankies in the pocket ...astronaut doc martins....Ben Sherman shirts ....they loved there Ska and reggae , the skin girls looked cool also

[@indy5624]

Although the early lads mixed well with their Jamaican counterparts a lot of racism was directed at the Indian and more so the Pakistani communities in the day, even a lot of the west Indians did not like them very much, sad fact but true.

[@loyalsmith4096]

🎅HAPPY -CHRISTMAS,🎄.

[@seanmiller5253]

Tanks U 2 !!! 📷🏡🤠🤓😷🤡😎🤙👍😍⌚🤔🤔🤔

[@crotchrottss]

❤❤❤❤

[@user-ri9ik1vz9d]

The only fashion for me crewcut n dms. Girls love their style n cut since 1973 love this music on vina L n disc my phones 0i 0i just love it😊

[@arronsoupene2681]

Oi from California

[@StevenGr73]

oi! from Rotterdam. 1987 punk, 1988 Skin. 2023 Skin

[@cathalapatricia7030]

Merçi ❤

[@jimmo5082]

Oringinal 69 fantastic days

[@garypautard1069]

I was a skinhead in 1969 and we didn't have tattoos covering our arms and the girls certainly did not or body piercings and to us veterans 2Tone was a sad copy of our music.

[@briandoherty3249]

I was born in 66 to a black mother and Irish dad. I used to hear my mams ska music and think it was for old people. Then In 78/9 two tone came and changed my life. It was a revival of 69 but getting older i learned about ska/reggae skinheads rude boys etc. Still love the style and music today.

[@briandoherty3249]

@@sean3691 too true mate. I had a white Irish dad and a black mum. In 78 /9 it spoke to me.

[@briandoherty3249]

@@sean3691 you'd never known my mam was black though. Lol I've been all over England, Scotland and Wales but never been to Ireland. I was booked to go to Dublin for st Patrick's day until the virus.

[@indy5624]

@@sean3691 Lots of the first generation Skinheads mixed freely with Jamaican youth`s back in the day, would make them a bunch of hypocrites if they did`nt as reggae and motown went close in hand together along with lots of old 60s soul and the early sounds which later became Northern Soul to many,including myself,

[@ronaldwallace6383]

Your tolk8ng shite pal two tone music was brilliant it brought black and white youth together madness the specials bad manners the selector and man more brilliant bands oi skinheads which I was one after two tone was fucking amazing 90 per cent into the music 10 per cent bone head hooligans brilliant oi bands cockney rejects the bussines cock sparrer blitz and many more 69 skinheads only emerged from working class mods trojan reggae was good music the two tone bands copied a lot of 5here stuff but still brilliant bands in there own right so you are well out of order mate poor imitation my arse

[@MIKEHUNT-iy7my]

WHERE HAVE ALL THE BONEHEADS GONE ?

[@keithlaub2178]

Oi!!!!

[@ronaldwallace6383]

In jail or dead hopefully gave the real skinheads a bad name

[@jasontimothywells9895]

@@ronaldwallace6383 I'm a traditional skin , 52 years old and dealt with the shit . I have ended many a boneheads in my career, SOUTH BAY SKINHEAD FOR LIFE , from the sea side of Hermosa Beach California .still got me old favorite knife and bat .

[@mariobusse6767]

Stehe und lebe es weiterhin.

[@blow-your-mind3011]

best whishes to all British traditional skins from Russia.

[@ianday4374]

Thank You, and the same to you

[@indy5624]

would love to know what those students are thinking when the first gen originals lads walked by at 450 onwards, you could see the look they got,.

[@paulnettle2782]

Was thinking the same thing ..I went back and did a frame by frame. Pretty telling

[@brightspark4817]

skins ruled the barbers shop lol

[@user-de6io5fh6b]

Was a skin at school blade 1 every month result suspended for 3 days a month sadly got into sniffing glue age 14 ruined lot wasted lot of my life sad to say led to other things but have qualifications of a shoe maker 1987 and landscape gardener use any machinery tools etc took after my dear dad r.i.p x sadly now diabetic arthritis and other issues loads of meds etc but beats the alternative xx

[@paulbates1167]

👌

[@dannyheroufosse9580]

Ther're two kind of skinheads. Don't mixed them up please...

[@daveanderson6315]

Swade heads and nazi type most are first and good working people 👍

[@drewwhy5541]

What about 4 skins 🤔

[@pauldunneska]

@@daveanderson6315 Suedeheads!

[@JamesJones-bb4bx]

Boneheads r a disgrace...🇬🇧

[@DJYUMMYNUTZ]

Didn't know that. I was confused. I need to look it up.

[@inlovewithaghostgirl5940]

Did the skinheads start the tats on the face thing ? Just wondering

[@brianhetherington-ford6957]

Ladbroke Grove skins were 😎

[@jonwiltsie107]

Were what?

[@brianhetherington-ford6957]

@@jonwiltsie107 cool jon

[@FHIPrincePeter]

Shame you did not use the covers of the Books "Skinhead" and "Rude Boy" by Richard Allen which were so popular back in the day of the 1st Skinhead movement of the early 70's.

[@howey935]

The girl at 1 min 19 is absolutely gorgeous.

[@TheGritherr]

2:19 I think

[@barryburton7755]

What's her picture like now days lol😅

[@jonathanjonathan7386]

british working class ppl back then were hard, skins or not. hard to believe how weak we have become since then

[@JONNYHOTROD]

66 now ……..lived it!!!!!👍🏻

[@davidpring9476]

No wars no killing yes we were a bunch of idiots but wot have u got now

[@geronimo4321]

HALLO BIMMELBAHN

[@peteranddorothybowles5428]

Does anyone know where wilsy of Dover is now

[@jonwiltsie107]

Nick Crane in a few of these, not his cuppa this theme I’m sure

[@MrStax40]

When Britain could fight

[@aminyousuf9925]

In gangs🤣🤣

[@briandoherty3249]

Everyone has gone soft nowadays. Even the police. Toxic masculinity is to blame. Soft people are easier to control.

[@youareaspook5897]

@@briandoherty3249 not enough masculinity man, in britain most of a young lads time is spent with a woman mentor due to a lack of male teachers and absent fathers, theyre taught many good things but not how to be men

[@indy5624]

@@aminyousuf9925 bit like some of your clowns.

[@aminyousuf9925]

@@indy5624 no afraid not mate

[@malcolmcog]

Went as a skinhead in 1969 because I hated my mate that was a hippy. Thats all.

[@ThePoliticsofMusic]

So, it would appear that some old Skinheads don't like facing the uncomfortable truth.

[@JIMMO50]

KNOBS 69S ORINALS

[@Catorcecincodiez]

did you get to know ian stuart?

[@tomaszszczypior6442]

Lots of pics is from 80s second WAVE of skinheads, two tone skinhead reagge was not popular, was a era of oi. Punk, rac music

[@lorilonsdale9394]

If anyone knows the people at 10.17 (2 guys 2girls) please shout me , im trying to get a def id if the guy at front is my brother

[@kevinfield3891]

and wot is the two kind of skins

[@brianwebber7829]

Who remembers the Harold hill skins must be someone out there

[@swifty8538]

I had heard of the harold hill mob as I was a walthamstow skin and we used to travel out that way now and again I cant remember actually running Into you guys but my sister marilyn used to always hangout that way so she may have run into you

[@brianwebber7829]

@@swifty8538 I don't recall her but there were all different groups at the time what year are we talking about , and walthamstow,the only thing I know about that is the dog track , I'm going back 35 years

[@swifty8538]

@@brianwebber7829 blimey Brian how time flies I'm talking about 72 ..76 I was in the army then but still a skinhead when I came on leave would meet up with my mates go all over my sister used to go to clubs out your way and get into trouble with the bouncers then expect me to sort it out she was such a bitch but she was my sister lol

[@brianwebber7829]

@@swifty8538 yes they was the good old days , I was about in the 80s , you was a bit before my time , used to go all over as well , great times , hope your doing ok

[@garyedwards9759]

@@swifty8538 they were west ham few of em used to drink in the boleyn on football days.

[@petermangelsdorf5768]

Where’s JOE HAWKINS onya

[@wernerrebitzer2906]

Oi Oi

[@toddbennett7157]

I don't see Nicky Crane anywhere at all . . . . .

[@slugrash1750]

Half of em were wearing skrewdriver shirts 🤮

[@skarlat.357]

Skrewdriver hasn't been a right wing band in the beginning. They started as a Punkband.

[@slugrash1750]

Skarla T. Yeah that’s what everyone says my stepdad listens to them even tho he’s leans left, I don’t give a shit if they weren’t originally nazis they still ended that way, Ian crashing into the tree was a happy ending, the Pric deserved it

[@slugrash1750]

Skarla T. Don’t defend a band that made songs about not liking someone of their colour that’s still not the point of skinhead, unity is and if you disagree you are a bigot to real skinheads.

[@Millwall77]

SLUG RASH You werent good at math at school right?

[@slugrash1750]

@@Millwall77 you know what I’m reading This a year later, I’m honestly embarrassed I said any of this shit.