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Why does Jax dress and walk like a gangbanger instead of a biker?

posted 7 years ago by al666940-3
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I mean, he's got the full guetto costume: baggy pants hanging around his butt, giant tennis shoes, hoodie, the side-to-side walk with tilted head, etc.

Only because he's white and wearing a leather jacket with an MC patch on it would I recognize him as a biker.

Even the Mayans look more like bikers than him.

And it's ONLY him: everyone else in SOA actually looks right out of a Hells Angels audition tryout (meaning they look and act just right).

So what is that all about? Is that some sort of statement about him personally? Because I don't quite buy such a rough crowd respecting/following a young punk dressing up like that (like a inner-city banger playing biker).

[–] julia-solovjova 7 years ago

They explained that its the fashion of the younger generation of bikers

[–] al666940-3 7 years ago

Then no wonder MC's are going down the crapper fast.

Let me guess: this new generation are mostly non veterans? That would explain things a bit.

[–] pfarnell 7 years ago

Then no wonder MC's are going down the crapper fast.

so it's not just here, and not just me that noticed..lol.

they're *beep* -ed, now..

[–] julia-solovjova 7 years ago

Most likely. Jax was never in the army. Younger generation could associate more with popular mainstream fashions than military.

[–] al666940-3 7 years ago

"Younger generation could associate more with popular mainstream fashions than military"

Well with no draft, all these punks end up emulating Mr Kardashian (Kanye West).

I can get why draftees (or volunteers whom like Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone felt betrayed/manipulated/lied to) or their friends/relatives would go this way, but today's generation?

[–] julia-solovjova 7 years ago

Do you like to dress like your middle-aged parents?

Military themes are still quite popular in fringe subcultures -- goth/steampunk, skinhead, antifa, etc.

[–] al666940-3 7 years ago

Actually yes I do (high school's social scene wasn't particularly easy to navigate). To me any sense of fashion is as alien as Martians.

I still think he looks like a wanabe punk (I've seen real life outlaw MC bikers, not particularly old ones, and none dresses like him, they actually look like they stepped right out of HBO's OZ).

[–] julia-solovjova 7 years ago

I wasn't meaning personally, just that young people usually choose different fashion than a generation before.
I agree that the style didn't suit him. Those white trainers were awful. But i'm relying on info given in commentaries that Jax had a look of the younger generation.

[–] pfarnell 7 years ago

no, I think all of the photographic references to military service in opening titles concern Clay, Piney and the late John Teller...certainly I always understood that Clay is a vet..
I think they're saying the club came out of Vietnam vets..like Mr 'Ball Bearing" and his boys in Australia...
I'm not sure there is any reference that Jax or any others of current generation management, -with exception of Chibs, who is stated as being a UK Northern Ireland conflict vet--have served.

[–] julia-solovjova 7 years ago

Clay and Piney (and the rest of First9) were Vietnam vets.
Half-Sack did a few tours in Iraq.
Bobby served, but was never in combat.
Chibs was a medic (British?)

That leaves Tig, Juice, Happy, and Jax

[–] pfarnell 7 years ago

Chibs was a medic (British?)

correct...which causes some discomfort because the 'real Kings" and what have you, are his former opponents..

I think Chibs might have been both a regular infantry soldier, as well as having been the (non-combatant?)medic previously or subsequently..I'm almost sure he saw combat in Northern Ireland

[–] julia-solovjova 7 years ago

Chibs is Scottish and a Catholic. There is some bad beef with the English there. Also it was mentioned that he was court-martialed, so my guess is that he helped the IRA

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 6 years ago

Well if we're honest by 2010, the baggy clothes was already outdated by 10-15 years.

As for the swagger type walk, that's how Hunnam walks in real life.

[–] JudgeNotLestYeBeJudgeReinhold 7 years ago

Maybe you should show all the OMC's of the world how to dress and give them some lessons on your version of 'hardcore biker attire. I mean, the way they dress is probably why their clubs are "going down the crapper".

I'm just wondering what connection you have to an OMC to have such a clever insight on their collective status...

[–] fattymagoo1 7 years ago

Charlie Hunnam said his character's wardrobe is based on a real life biker whom he also based Jax off of. He's not trying to walk like a gangbanger, that's how he really walks lol

[–] mgreen9715 7 years ago

It seems like that's the way he normally walks. Sometimes when people have one leg a little shorter than the other it causes them to look abnormal while walking.

I know that a lot of people talk about how they notice him limping in the last few episodes of S7. This is because he broke a few toes on one of his feet and had a hard time walking. The scene where he got up and stumbled wasn't actually in the script but they left it.

[–] pfarnell 7 years ago

him and the sneakers and the stupid walk come up in forums continually..

[–] mgreen9715 7 years ago

Yeah they do.

Haha.

[–] stevaside (6) 6 years ago

I was just wondering why we kept seeing all the baggy pants midway into the 2010s. I get that the show came out in 2008, but not too much later baggy jeans majorly fell out of style & him still wearing them in 2014 was kinda dumb. Loved this show, but look at Breaking Bad..the older episodes Jesse still had the silly oversized thug look of the 2000's, but as the show entered the new decade his wardrobe evolved into more fitted clothing

[–] Daisy (3022) 6 years ago

Jax's walk totally annoyed me and made me laugh during some scenes that were clearly not funny.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Ha! I was trolling old posts when I came across this thread.

I noted the exact same thing in a recent 2020 post.

[–] janelsenor (2042) 3 years ago

He dresses like a shitty Kurt Cobain cosplayer....