| Of course the Mods and Rockers clashed, the | | | | marijuana-infused contemplation of esoteric ideas |
| antagonism reached its peak in the summer of | | | | and aesthetics, which contrasted sharply with the |
| 1964, when hundreds of youths fought running | | | | frenetic energy of the mod ethos. |
| battles with themselves and the police in the | | | | However, there was a small core that did not |
| seaside resorts of Clacton, Margate, Bournemouth | | | | relate to the middle-class hippie movement's |
| and Brighton. However, the media reports of the | | | | drug-oriented and intellectual music. They began |
| time greatly over-exaggerated the severity of | | | | listening to Jamaican Ska and attending |
| these incidents causing some moral panic and | | | | underground house parties and clubs and adopting |
| vindication by the older generations that these | | | | the Rude Boy look of pork-pie hats and too-short |
| youth movements were decadent rabble. | | | | Levi jeans. These 'Hard Mods' soon evolved into |
| As psychedelic rock music and the hippie | | | | the first skinheads, a non-political group who hung |
| subculture began to become popular in the UK, | | | | with black Rude Boys in West Indian clubs. These |
| the Mod lifestyle began to peter out. Some of the | | | | early skinheads retained some of the basic |
| great Mod bands such as The Who and The Small | | | | elements of Mod clothing such as Fred Perry and |
| Faces had changes their styles and really no | | | | Ben Sherman shirts, Sta-Prest trousers and Levi's |
| longer considered themselves as Mods. The | | | | jeans but they mixed them with working-class |
| "peacock" or "fashion" wing of mod culture | | | | oriented accessories such as braces and Dr. |
| evolved into the Bohemian style of London hippie | | | | Marten work boots. |
| culture, which favoured the gentle, | | | | |