Allegiance to fashion snobbery was quickly dissolved with ravers championing the rise of the blatantly pirated clothing that mutated into children's clothing and bland beachwear.
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By 2004 ravers themselves will be picking up the tab, a development which will surely reduce significantly the already dwindling appeal of the event.
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Alien imagery serves as a perfect model for the temporary transcendence of time, space and place that ravers desire.
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It is the biological body of ravers which is under pressure.
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It was at this event that the police decided to crack down on ravers, setting an example through a 'tough-love' punitive approach.
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The ravers themselves risk the loss of their 'freedom' to dance.
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Punitive approaches used to 'educate' ravers about drug use are generally reported to fail.
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The approach road has been taken over by streams of ravers making their way to the hub of the action.
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The onus was then placed on the ravers themselves to fulfil their citizenship responsibilities.
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In this case, ravers take pleasure in a particular fashion aesthetic (consisting of brand name phat pants, little tees, sneakers, and over-sized hoodies) which operates as a self-regulating mechanism.
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Through the ravers' confessional practices, the authorities and various groups (health care workers, coroner, parents, public intellectuals, media) were able to constitute the ravers as an object of knowledge.
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I do not think anyone could label me as a troublemaker, a nuisance, a ranter orraver.
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They have mainly been worn by members of youth subcultures, including punks, ravers, goths and indies.
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The 1981 festival village was designed around a central rotunda with a maypole, where spontaneously, poets, buskers and ravers alike featured.
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Ravers are bodiless evil spirits with the ability to possess and control some lesser creatures, and most humans as well.
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