Such symbolic fictions are the folklore by means of which the teenager, in part, shapes and composes his mental picture of the world”(281). Hall and Whannel also identify the way in which teenagers use particular ways of talking, particular places to go, particular ways of dancing, and particular ways of dressing to establish distance from the world of adults: they describe dress style as “a minor popular art… used to express certain contemporary adtitudes . . . for example, a strong current of social nonconformity and rebelliousness” (282).