Clothing epitomises the effect the music had on the
individual. They became extreme to the degree of expressing individuality and
attempted to define themselves. Fashion and subculture altered significantly in
this period of the youth. Psychobilly styles were derived from the “1950
rockabilly and rock-and-roll as 1970 punk fashions”. The aim of their clothes
was to alter people’s perception of themselves.
Psychobillies enjoyed the freedom of expression by being
tattooed which was influenced by the movie profession. Macabre nature such as
bats, skulls and gravestones were tattooed on their arms. They wanted to change people’s perception of
themselves as “the goal of the psychobilly was to live fast, die young and
leave a not so beautiful corpse”.
