Material of menace, armed with apparel: a historical investigation of the use of leather in British subcultures (1940s - 1980s)

• Main Author: Muhammad Luqman Bin Mohamed Razip
• Other Authors: Justin Clark
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Europe
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165373
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study intends to study the historical factors behind the use of leather in British subcultures between the 1940s and the 1980s. By enmeshing the ways that leather has been portrayed, perceived, utilised, and imbued with different meanings, this essay posits that wearing leather became an essent...