not necessarily mods either who I must admit, do dress rather well and seem to enjoy themselves a bit : )

I'll have you know I had a 50 Special. 0-60 in 4 seconds and a top speed of 140mph. I might be reinventing that a bit, cause I can remember I had to ditch it once in Glen Pava when a gang of rockers were chasing me on foot up a hill and gaining.

Yeah, there was a big crew of them that used to hang on the park, sniffing glue. Sometimes we used to hang out round the shops next to the post office and pick the odd one off when he came out with his pension. Then it'd be off down to Savile Row to Pooles for a new suit. This was around 83, a lot of guys had moved onto either the casual thing but a few into a skinhead or scooter boy. There were still a lot of Mods about though. By now I was in the top 5 dressers in the world. People like Brian Rae and Ginger Taylor were always ringing me up and trying to buy to something from my record collection.

I had mates who weren't mods and they never seemed to do any thing bar going down the local or into townie clubs. Now I'm old I have mates who aren't mods and they just go down the local or out for a meal. Your life, do want you want. I do know that I don't dress like Big Al or Jim. I'm doing my own thing but I'm still a mod, I don't need to have a set of rules, if I wanna wear a spread collar I will. Clothes are at the core of Mod. To be slagged off by someone who dresses like Jim means nothing, even if he'd like to think it does.

"I've learned much"...what a fucking mug.

And again with the dumb-dumb, Soggs ?

My parents are dead. I am 48. You have no idea about anything about me beyond my written works and I am a writer of fiction.

The posts you contrast present you with a paradox. A 'contradiction' is a lesser reading of what is being offered.

What if I am actually from a Secondary Modern in Macclesfield ?   Where would you go from there ?

So, a 'Mod' are you?  Good for you.  So what?

Unless you can present why it's so great my question still stands - What's so great about youth subcultures ?

Not that you are a youth anymore...

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I've replied to your inquest as best as I can, old chum. Beyond what I've said I don't really need to go into it any further. I have no need or desire to do so, what? 

Maybe you can, sir, tell me whats so great about not being into a subculture life style? Wearing cheap, scuff bag clothes and drinking in a local? Maybe a bag of chips on the way home? Sounds devine, what? Please feel free to venture why you find your life style, home decor, eye for clothes and ear for music so much more better than mine, old boy, what?

Of course I might only be a Modernist online, in real life I might be a tranny for all you know. You only know what I what you to know, when I want you to know it. Don't you know, what?

I don't see how Ivy clothes could be a regime as they encompass the whole of the 20th century (well, they do)
Ivyist is not a subculture either.
Mod was a subculture. Now its people playing dress up.
Nothing wrong with that though if that's what they like.