Read and complete the sentence with the correct part.

In other areas of research, another ‘rule’ of behaviour I had discovered, was that it is very important for the English not to take themselves too seriously, to be able to laugh at themselves. However, it is well known that most teenagers tend to take themselves a bit too seriously. Would a ‘tribe’ of young people be able to laugh at the way they dress? I decided to find out, and I went straight to a group whose identity is very closely ...

• linked to the way they dress, the Goths.
• than any other nation’s street fashion, and are often imitated by young people all over the world.
• had a sense of humour.
• to cope without them.
• as high-class men’s suits, ceremonial costume, and innovative street fashion.
• to wear what she likes, a kind of 1950s fashion, with no regard for anyone else’s opinion.
• look eccentric in exactly the same way.
• including ‘innovative street fashion’ in the category of uniform.
• pretending to be serious.
• extract from her book Watching the English.