⠀ ⠀ Skinheads are easily identified by their shaven heads or extremely short hair, Doc Martins or boots, sometimes steel-toed, suspenders, polos, straight-leg jeans and (typically bomber-esque) jackets. The original, first Skinheads were working-class adults, typically young adults, with alternative values, and working class pride. Skinheads took inspiration from other working class subcultures, such as Jamacian Rudeboys. They were also drawn towards other similar things in the vein of working class, such as Jamacian fashion & music (especially reggae & ska) and modernist culture. Due to the culture-mash with subculture such as British-Jamacian & Jamacian rudeboys & modernist subculture, many skins alike were influenced by Jamacian music such as Ska and Reggae, and Rocksteady.

Skinheads, also known as Skins, are part of a subculture originating from British/Jamacian solidarity within London, England in the 1960s. Around the late 1970s, it had spread to other parts of the UK, starting a second wave of working-class Skinheads emerging, motivated mainly by social alienation, and working-class solidarity.
Around the 1980s, skinheads experienced a political division, splitting them into the far-right and the far-left categories. The skinhead subculture was co-opted by white nationalist and neo-nazis alike, for what reason? I'm not sure. Probably the look they had. Maybe just to ruin it. But, in response to neo-nazi boneheads springing up, it was soon followed with groups such as S.H.A.R.P., SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice.