Heavy metal fashion - Legwear

A key and basic element of metal fashion is the outward display of one's musical taste. This can be accomplished in several ways. Heavy metal fashion - Band shirts. The band shirt is widely regarded as something akin to the 'minimum uniform' for a metalhead. T-shirts for metal bands are almost universally black, with only those bands popular enough to have fans beyond the metal community normally bothering to print T-shirts in other colours, though some print white shirts, normally as a statement against c ...

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Clothing for the female metalhead shares much in common with elements of goth and punk fashion, combined with what is simply a feminised version of male metalhead fashion. The heavy monochrome makeup of goth is relatively popular among female metalheads, far more so than it is amongst the male metal fan, and jewellry and accessories can be similar as well, although female metalheads tend to borrow from the classic goth look, rather than Cybergoth, Victorian, Goth etc. One exception to this is female black metal fans, who sometimes dress in t ...

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Jewelry is popular for both genders. Almost always silver, popular items include rings (often adorned with metal imagery such as skulls, flames, spikes, iron crosses etc.) and silver neck-chains (thin when compared, for example to bling Jewellry) or pendants, often of a religious or anti-religious nature: inverted crucifixes, Satanic Pentagrams and Thor's Hammers are popular. This taste in pendants offers a marked difference between the metal and goth subcultures: goths will often wear crosses even if they are not religious, and will wear the benign, un-inverted Wiccan Pentagram.

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The style and clothing of metal has absorbed elements from influences as diverse as the musical influences from which the genre has borrowed: modern metal fashion is a hotch-potch of punk, goth (particularly for female metalheads), military fashion and even various historical fashions. It is from this linking of different sub-styles of clothing and music influences that one can sometimes determine a persons specific taste in music simply from overall appearance. For example, the use of black nail varnish and eyeliner, when combined with an o ...

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Heavy metal fashion, Heavy metal fashion - Origins, Heavy metal fashion - Other influences, Heavy metal fashion - Band display, Heavy metal fashion - Band shirts, Heavy metal fashion - Patches, Heavy metal fashion - Other, Heavy metal fashion - Jackets, Heavy metal fashion - Legwear, Heavy metal fashion - Hairstyles, Heavy metal fashion - Accessories and jewelry, Heavy metal fashion - Body modification, Heavy metal fashion - Female metal fashion, Heavy metal fashion - Imitators

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