Punk Artifact-Fashion

An important artifact I found in reading about punks is their desire for do-it-yourself fashion. Pleasant discusses how he and his friends would buy ordinary clothes and transform them into statements with simple, but meaningful alterations. Much of what defines punk culture is the subversive attitude which permeates nearly all of what they do, and is made most obvious with their dress. It was important to Pleasant and his punk friends because they could outwardly show their identification with the punk community, while showing their separation from the Bible-belt town of Waco, Texas.