I came up (middle school/HS) during the advent of punk, and I loved it (other than the Clash and the Ramones), but I can honestly say that I never had a mohawk/stupid haircut, a bunch of hardware in my face, or Doc Martin's.
I DID have a pair of Vans (before Fast Times came out, and they weren't checkerboard, just plain tan canvas), but only because a friend of mine brought them to me from Cali, when he came back to visit his grandmother for the Summer, and knew I was into skateboarding. Nobody in KY, including me, had even heard of them yet. But Vans slide-ins were, and probably still ARE, the best skateboarding shoe ever made.
Punk "fashion" and mania, didn't catch on in Central KY until punk was already halfway dead anyway. And I'm glad of it. The irony of dressing like a British hooligan from Bristol, just to be edgy is anathema to the whole thing.
Like I said, I just liked to turn that sh*t up, get high, and skate in my friend's empty pool all Summer.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that early adopters of punk bands in this area (and punk is just stripped down garage band songs anyway, it was never actually unique) didn't really think about any of that sh!t. It was aggressive, it was loud, and by the time it came around, most of us were completey burnt out on Classic Rock/Heavy Metal because that is ALL you could hear on the GD radio (WKQQ)
