>>456667Sage for huge ass ramble bc I love stuff abt old Japanese delinquents kek
Well delinquent fashion really was a matter of what was stylish/trendy at the time and whatever could go against school rules since uniform codse were (and still are i think?) so strict during that time. In the 60s bell bottomed pants were popular with delinquents. Then towards the 70s male delinquents started to take more inspiration from 50s greaser culture with slicked back pompadours, and longer jackets became more popular. Popular bands like The Cools Rockabilly Club, Carol, and Eikichi Yazawa were big inspirations for many aspiring delinquents and their fashion outside of uniforms. The 80s really brought on the rise of higher waisted baggy pants since that was also a trendy thing to wear back then, though they ended up exaggerating it to a really large degree and tapering them towards the ankles (these were called bontan). Permed pompadours also became a more popular hairstyle due to popular bands like Yokohama Ginbae and Daisuke Shima often sporting them. Sometimes you would also find cropped jackets in the 80s (different jacket lengths had different names, cropped jackets were called tanran and long jackets were called chouran). Also I think it was more of an 80s thing but sometimes guys would modify the inside of their uniform to have certain designs on the inside, these were called boyaki. Delinquents would even have custom buttons on their uniforms just to be different and cool looking. I know the 90s still had delinquents during that time but by then the culture was starting to fade due to Japan's laws being stricter on biker gangs, and by the 2000s it was basically gone and older delinquent fashion just kinda became a joke.
There's also conversation to be had about bosouzoku (biker gang) fashion, everyday wear, as well as sukeban fashion but that's a ramble for a different day kek. Also sorry if any of this info might by chance be incorrect most of my info is from a Japanese zine all about delinquent fashion as well as my scouring of older blogs by former delinquents, and my Japanese isn't great so I might have misinterpreted a few things.
picrel is an image of yokohama ginbae btw. i love these guys