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Description: | The Museum of London acquired this outfit from Min McIlwain who wore it when she was fourteen years old in 1979. She lived in Fulham and described herself as a punk. Min bought the Lifeguard's tunic, which was originally made in 1953, from a junk shop in Bognor Regis and the tight animal print synthetic trousers from a mail order advertisement for ��10. She wore the trousers with a hand knitted mohair punk sweater whose arms are inset just above the waist like those sold at Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McClaren's shop Seditionaries at 430 Kings Road, Chelsea. She completed the outfit with a pair of Dr. Marten's black leather ankle boots. Many young people continued to be influenced by punk styles well into the 1980s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | Youth Culture and Fashion | Temporal: | 80 1979 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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