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A 'Chelsea girl' (also known as a 'Chelsea', 'skinhead girl', 'skingirl', 'skinbird,' or 'Renee') is a female who is part of the skinhead subculture.
The term refers to her hairstyle, which involves shaving the crown and occiput of her head and leaving the front, back and sides as fringes. The hairstyle is more commonly called ''feather cut'' in the United Kingdom. Although the name Chelsea is more common in North America than in the UK, the term may have originated from the belief that the style was first commonly seen on the Kings Road, in Chelsea, London, England. From the 1960s until the mid-1980s, the Kings Road was known as a haunt for youths from subcultures such as mod, skinhead and punk. Females involved in the suedehead subculture (a skinhead offshoot) were called ''sorts.''