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:For the album by Nico, see Chelsea Girl.

A Chelsea girl (AKA Chelsea, skinhead girl, skingirl, skinbird, or Renee) is a girl or woman 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 fringe. The hairstyle is more commonly called feather cut in the United Kingdom, but this hairstyle is only the more "extreme" version of a skingirl cut, that may involve short to medium length hair on the crown, and longer fringes on the side of the face and ( a little shorter) on the neck.
The skingirls are highly regarded by their male couterparts, who generally admire a woman who has the strength to join their same culture, so rejecting bourgeois values in order to become part of a movement made out of outcasts.

Females involved in the suedehead subculture (a skinhead offshoot) were called sorts.

Although the name Chelsea is more common in North America than in the UK, the term originates from the fact 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.

Chelsea is not a term that English people use for the feathercut hair favoured by skinheads. That vile bald patch with fringes oft times called a chelsea by Americans is a haircut that came in with glue sniffing punk bands rather than the dapper skinheads following reggae and soul.
In Cockney terminology any good looking woman (fit bird) would be called a 'sort'. Nebbishes seem to think that sorts refers to skinhead girls as Richard Allen wrote a NEL paperback companion piece to 'Smoothies' entitled 'Sorts'.
If any skinhead girls are considering getting a chelsea just stop. Why not get a proper skinhead girls haircut instead? Oh, and some smart clothes would be a winner too.