Punk Dressage

Punk might appear to be an anti-fashion style devised by fashion designers to attract public attention. It has a tough, street anarchic, aura with spikes, slashed material, studs, jagged patches . Designers invoke punk to suggest an offbeat 'attittude'. Punk style is associated with the rebel, the social outsider rather than the conformist power status dresser. But those who identify themselves as punk believe that punk is not just a style, but a state of mind that gives an understandfing that is beyond the comprehension of those who are not punks.