Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is an up-beat look at street fashion from 1940 to today, celebrating some 40 different styletribes, which will accompany a major exhibition on Streetstyle at the Victoria and Albert Museum in November 1994. We see how the styletribes interweave and evolve - the American Modernists of the early 1950s living on in the English Mods of the early 1960s, who became the Hard Mods, then the Skinheads, then the Ois ; while the 1950s Folkies became first the 1970s Hippies and then the New Age Travellers of the 1980s and 1990s.

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If you thought punk was dead--well, look again! From side street and main street to TV and film, from CD covers to sidewalk lovers, it's everywhere, this time incorporated into the larger social menu as another optional lifestyle--streetstyle. Polhemus provides an informative, concise, lively rundown of all its major substyles, from those of zooties and hip cats to those of New Age travelers and acid jazz fans. They're all here, fully illustrated and, best of all, fun. So set aside personal prejudices, pretend you're from another planet, and marvel at the human ability to express individuality. ~--Raul Nino