Ska costume ideas / experimentation

This is my favourite photo from the shoot, during the shoot I tried out several different costume ideas, considering the generic ska costume/ fashion and taken inspiration from ska artists. This costume was inspired by No Doubt gwen stefani's style - a 90's ska band.

Gwen Stefani's style (in No Doubt) reflected ska fashion as well as 50's (rockabilly) as in this video with the quiffed bleached hair and red lips, almost like Marilyn Monroe, the classic Hollywood image, although constrasted with the almost punky appearence of costume (lepard print leggins) and genre it could be symbolic of something else. The bassist in the video has a trilby hat on, an iconic image on the ska genre.




Hair style
Females hairstyle in the ska era had a notiable influence from punk. At the time it was very shocking to have shaved hair, even for so if you where female, their hairstyle was making a statement, both political and fashionable. Female ska fans hair was very masucline, and these fans where often called 'skinhead girls'.

Lol - 'This is England'
Lol's hairstyle in 'This is England' is very reflective of the ska hairstyle, a fringe and shaved head.