- shaved head (promoted by Rodchenko circa Russian Revolution)
- Phrygian cap, pantalons (trousers), la carmagnole (short jacket), sabots (clogs) of the Sans-Culottes circa French Revolution
- leather clothing (promoted by Sverdlov amongst the Bolsheviks pre-1917, they were sometimes refered to as the ‘Leatherites’)
- handkerchief code of the homosexual underground circa 20th century
- afro, black leather jacket, powder blue shirt, black pants, black shoes, black
beret, and optional black gloves of the Black Panthers (promoted by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale) - red bandana circa Spanish Civil War
- white helmets with a red line around the bottom and a large black ‘Z’, worn by the student activists in the Nihon Kakumeiteki Kyõsanshugisha Dõmei Kakumeiteki Marukusushugi-ha (Japan Revolutionary Communist League Revolutionary Marxist Faction) aka Kakumaru-ha.
- overalls (promoted by Stepanova after the Russian Revolution)
- Jungenschaftsjacke (also known as a juja or young stem jacket) of the Edelweiss Pirates circa German Third Reich
- red ribbons worn by activist Phillipinos at work in the late 1980s.
- sabots (clogs) of the ‘sabotteurs’ and pre-Luddites of 15th century Netherlands
- dyed red leather of the Red Sotnia (a faction in the Red Army during the Russian Revolution)
- kente cloth of American Black Nationalism
- membership card carried in the shoes of the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
- Early geometric Bolshevik textiles (designed by Varvara Stepanova)
- Tute Bianche (Italian autonomists in the 90s, they wore white overalls to evoke the ‘ghosts’ that would haunt the ghost town police proposed to make of a squatted area).
- fustian jackets, worn by workers during the Chartist era in the 19th century as a symbol of their class allegiance.
- umbrellas (carried by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the Umbrella Movement).
- orange felt hats (promoted by Orange Alternative, worn at anti-government protests in 1988 in the wake of the Solidarnosc/Solidarity uprising in Poland).
- raincoats (with ‘End Apartheid’ written on them, worn by British anti-apartheid activists during their long, ongoing protest in the 1980s).
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