The creative element of youth is expressed in the wide variety of colours of their clothes and the greater leeway for experimental styles. In addition, sports is the activation of the body while dance is the expression of sensuality. This bodily dimension of youth culture makes adults feel ambivalent about youth. Adults want that youthful look and perhaps some adults divert their envy into moral condemnation of youth. Moreover, youth is the period of a blossoming puberty, charged with the potential of sexual energy.
Mass culture is another central feature of youth culture.
Because they either do not work or do not work full time, young people are generally not producers. Instead, they are consumers of goods mass-produced by industry. We often hear adults complaining about youths being victims of fashion, adopting whatever is popular and faddish. The truth of the matter is that youths consume popular goods because of the cheapness of mass products and not because they are slaves to whim. Mass-production makes goods cheap and affordable and young people do not have much disposable income to afford luxuries.