While there hasn’t been a greaser revival since the 1970s in pop culture, greaser fashion continues to endure to this day. Developing in the 1950s and most associated with early biker gangs, greaser fashion has had a massive impact on punk fashion and continues to be a look that is popular to some today. Best known for greased back hair that often took the form of a pompadour, greaser fashion was the accessory of youth culture before it got roundly rejected by the wild excesses of hippy fashion.
Simple in its look, greaser fashion can be considered a classic get up. Levi denim jackets or leather motorcycle jackets would strike the eye and show people that the person wearing these popular greaser fashion accessories meant business. A simple white or black T-shirt or a simple white wife beater undershirt popularized by Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire is a vital component in greaser fashion. Other fashion items popularized in greaser style fashion include the classic Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars basketball shoe, chain wallets, steel-toed engineer boots and bandanas. Adding, at your option, to the admittedly bad-ass greaser fashion ensemble are tattoos. Unfortunately you can’t purchase the reckless disregard for society and sneer that were as much a staple of greaser style fashion as the actual clothes at a store. At least, not yet …