Kustom Kulture

Kustom Kulture is a generic term for art, vehicles, hairstyles, and clothing style of members of the customizing scene, remodels and refined cars and motorcycles. From the early days of "hot rodding " in the United States of the 1950s, various fashion trends and styles have developed, still influence our daily lives. Artists such as Von Dutch, race car designers like " Big Daddy" Ed Roth, hot rod and lowrider customizers such as the Barris Brothers, and numerous tattoo artists, automobile painters, and television shows like Happy Days have contributed to the development of today's Kustom Kulture.

Kustom Kulture is associated generally with the greasers of the 1950s, the drag racers of the 1960s and the lowriders of the 1970s. Other subcultures that influenced the modern Kustom Kulture, both the mods and rockers of the 1970s, as well as the metal and rockabilly music from the 1980s and the psychobilly music of the 1990s. Each of these youth movements has contributed their own conversion types as well as dresses and styles of music. Paired with allusions to cartoons and monster movies from the 1950s to the 1970s, this has made the Kustom Kulture to the complex subculture that it is today.