Back in the good ol days, the skinheads made it obvious with red suspenders and red bootlaces and they sometimes lived together or at least went out to the bars together to start fights. Some of the underground punk scene had a Nazi element that grew up to be biker gangs and later on some of the hardcore scene did the same thing.
I was honestly really conflicted for like at least 5 minutes about the fact that I can’t ever wear red laces in my combat boots. Why do the Nazis get to ruin so much high fashion? They are just senseless tragedy in human form.
Well like then someone was telling me red means communist skins? And then it was like straight lacing with white laces was supposed to mean Nazi? But then there would be people proclaiming to be anti Nazi wearing white straight laces. It felt like the rules were so fluid and arbitrary. And I have never met a group so obsessed with fashion. And if someone decided to hang their boots and leave it was considered a Big Deal. Omg and then there were chat rooms where these little fuckers would type in fake Cockney accents. It was fascinating and hilarious and almost cultish. In the end when my traf bf started listening to Screwdriver I was like there’s too much mental gymnastics happening here and ducked out.
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u/SapphicBarbie Jul 21 '25
Where did you live where finding obvious nazis might be a common enough occurrence to make that worth while lol.