Faq

What is Chelsea?

Chelsea originally referred to the girlfriend of a Skinhead but has since some to refer females as Skinheads in their own right. Whether the term stems from the name of fringe, short on top and longer around the sides, they adopted, or whether he hair style was named after the girls remains a mystery to me.

Jenifer J.Jewkes says:
I have a feather cut now…..and it needs a trim…I live in Chicago…so Chelsea is out of the question for now…I'm getting tempted to shave it again….only when it get warmer…prolly in a few months…the way Chicago's weather goes. I agree….Chelsea's are stunning…but feather cuts have bit more class…especially when you are older and have to worry about finding job.

Gerrard A. Lindsay weights in stating that:
Someone remarked that not many original skinhead girls had short hair. Maybe I'm wrong, but most pictures I've seen did feature skingirls with short to cropped hair. Maybe not extreme fringe, but I haven't seen any pictures of skingirls with long hair from before the seventies…..
Even the skinhead bible mentions skingirls going to the male barbers for haircuts……

Jenn replies:
I didn't say they didn't have short hair, but that they rarely shaved their heads. I've seen plenty o' pics of skinhead girls form the '60s with bobs 'n stuff, or just really short hair, but a girl with a shaved head 30 years ago would have been a true rarity, from what I've seen
>even the skinhead bible mentions skingirls going to male barbers for haircuts…..
Again, mine is obviously not the word of God, but there's a difference between short hair and a shaved head on a female, and a woman in the '60s with a shaved head would've had a hell of a time in public (outrageous hairstyles not being 'nearly' as common in those days-unless you count beehives as outrageous).
Besides which, a great many skingirls in the beginning (unfortunate though this maybe) were pretty much just girlfriends of skinheads, and not quite as apt to shave their heads.