How to dress like a metalhead

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Tips
Warnings
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Metal, as a great genre of music, has existed longer than all other genres, with the exception of rock and roll. For forty years, metal fans from all over the world not only listened to it, but also belonged to a culture that opposed fashion and mercantilism. Modern metal comes from classic metalheads who listened to the earliest metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc. Heavy metal evolved from blues and psychedelic rock (hippie music). Therefore, metal is rooted in the hippie movement of the 60s.

Steps

1 Know that metal is a huge work of art. It doesn't matter how metal you look like, if you don't understand and respect metal itself, then you're just a poser. Before becoming a metalhead, you must learn to understand and appreciate metal. A well-groomed businessman in a suit, talking about all sorts of death metal and black metal bands, guitarists and vocalists, undoubtedly deserves more of a metal name than a guy who dresses like a metal but only listens to Linkin Park.
2 Get your hair done like a metalhead. The traditional metalhead hairstyle is long hair. However, male metalheads have more freedom with their hairstyles.
- Hairstyles that the metalhead will not wear include mohawk, spikes, "stage kid" hairstyles, or "emo" bangs.
- Metal workers wear such hairstyles: long hair, dreadlocks, short hair or a bald haircut.
- Beards also help you to look metallic.
- Don't dye your hair if you're a guy. If you are a girl and insist on dyeing your hair, then dye it in natural colors.
3 Learn about the hats. Hats aren’t preferable in Metal culture. But if you insist on wearing one, it’s suggested that you wear a band hat, a camo hat, or dull or dark-colored hat, preferably old-looking. If hunting is a common activity in your area, bright orange hats are fine, too. Unless you listen to nu-metal (in which case, you should prepare to be called a poser by many Metalheads), it's suggested that you avoid brightly-colored hats that a hip-hop fan might wear, as they'd make you look like a nu-metal fan.
4 Wear a black band T-shirt. We recommend that you wear a T-shirt with the group you are listening to, as people may start talking to you about this group and you will look like a poser if you don't know what to talk about.
5 Dress appropriately for the weather. If you want to dress warmly in cold weather, it's best to wear a black leather jacket or denim jacket if you like 80s thrash metal. Dark colored work jackets can also be worn to some extent by metalworkers. The bright orange camouflage jackets are not metallic, but can be worn if you live in the countryside or in any other area where hunting is common.If you want to look like a seasoned metalhead, you need to put on a biker jacket, which is a leather or denim vest or jacket with band patches sewn onto it. You can buy patches from internet sites that sell band T-shirts, especially a music store.
6 Wear the right pants. It is preferable to wear jeans, camouflage pants or khaki pants. Other styles will work as well, as long as they are not too flashy and flashy. If you want to look like an 80s thrash metalhead, they wear black or light blue skinny jeans. Particularly if you listen to a lot of death metal, grindcore, gore grind, etc. you can express this by wearing khaki pants (green, khaki, gray, etc.) or camouflage pants. If you love black metal, you can show it by wearing black jeans or pants. If you listen to a lot of thrash / doom / glam metal you need to wear jeans, preferably a little faded
7 Find out about belts. Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to wear a spiked or bullet belt. If you like them, then of course wear them, but if you don't like them, any belt of a not too bright color will do.
8 Wear the right shoes. Shoes do not play a very important role, you can wear any type of sneakers, skate shoes will do too. The boots have a more metal look, so if you really want to look metal, get a pair. Ankle boots or leather "biker" boots work well too. For example, thrash metalheads wear high-top white sneakers tucked into their pants.

Tips

If you're not a black metal fanatic, stay away from makeup. And make sure you can do the right makeup so you don't look stupid. Also, you shouldn't walk the streets or office every day with corpse paint on your face, spikes and inverted crosses just because you are a black metal fan. Better to store accessories for the concert.
Metal women, have more freedom in the matter of dress, look grungy or like a Viking is a little difficult for a woman. All they need to look like a metalhead is a T-shirt with a band (as opposed to their male counterparts), and can also wear denim, camouflage, khaki, or a plaid skirt. They can borrow elements from 80s punk fashion. It's okay for metalheads to wear makeup for so long that it becomes a habit. Remember that Metal is an anti-fashion movement; Unlike the children of the stage, the metalhead is not just a "guy's toy". They don't have to try to look cute if they don't want to. Stay away from the elegant look of such a girl.
Try not to look too rich. Metal is anti-mercantile. That doesn't mean you have to look like a tramp to be a metalhead, but you won't look like a metalhead if you're wearing $ 10,000 accessories and tailor-made clothing. In fact, jeans from a supermarket and inexpensive T-shirts from an online store are great, and they are just as good as branded jeans. So metal fashion (or anti-fashion) not only looks cool but saves you money.

Warnings

If you are going to wear a T-shirt or band patch, make sure it is a band you know well. You should be well versed in her discography, and remember your favorite songs of this group. If people start talking to you about a group about which you know almost nothing, it won't take long to realize that you don't know what you are talking about. Then you will look like a poser. It's better not to wear T-shirts / patches and agree that you don't know too much about this group than to wear a T-shirt and risk being called a poser.
Don't be a poser.Nobody will admire you if you constantly try to brag to the hot chick in the room, and chances are you will end up looking foolish and leave people with a bad impression of metal.
When you dress like a metalhead, try not to overdo it, even if you really like this music, many people will consider you a poseur.
Avoid wearing too many chains and spikes on yourself. Your look may turn out to be more gothic than you wanted.
Metal is not outside; metal is what's inside. A lot of people adopt the style of metalheads and their manners, while they themselves only know two or three bands and cannot tell the difference between a poser and a real metalhead. These are posers. You can often see them at the concerts of famous bands (since they only listen to trendy bands like Slipknot or Korn), be aware that posers outnumber real metalheads. If someone looks like a metalhead, that doesn't mean they really are.