Here's a glimpse of underground culture and fashion in its heyday before the rise of Hot Topic. This is Dublin's Grafton Street, 1989.
Compare and contrast with this report from ten years earlier on "punks, skinheads, and Skaboys of Dublin":
TV news report on teen "goths, Cure-heads, and psychobillies" in Dublin (1989)
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Ahegao bodysuit
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Apollo Neuro teaches your body how to battle stress on its own
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