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1950s Beginnings
The Teddy boy youth culture first emerged in Britain (starting in London, and rapidly spreading across the country) during the early 1950s, and soon after became strongly associated with American rock and roll music of the period. It was typified by young men wearing clothes inspired by those of the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had tried to re-introduce after World War II: "Edward" being shortened to Ted after a Daily Express headline in 1953 first coined the term 'Teddy boy', which stuck. Clothing consisted of long drape jackets, usually in dark shades, sometimes with velvet trim collar and pocket flaps, skin-tight high-waisted 'drainpipe' trousers, chunky brogues and later large crepe-soled shoes, often suede (sometimes nicknamed brothel creepers). A high-necked loose 'Mr B' collar on a white shirt (as worn by jazz musician Billy Eckstine) was set off with a narrow 'Slim Jim' tie and a brocade waistcoat. In the main, these clothes were tailor-made at great expense through many weekly instalments. Preferred hairstyles included long, strongly moulded greased-up hair with a quiff at the front, with the side hair combed back to form a 'DA' (duck's arse) at the rear of the head. Other styles included the Boston, where hair was greased straight back and cut square across at the nape. The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ...
The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It succeeded the Victorian period and is sometimes extended to include the period up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War...
Savile Row Savile Row Savile Row is a road in the City of Westminster in central London that runs parallel to Regent Street between Conduit Street at the northern end and Vigo Street at the southern. ...
The Daily Express is a conservative, middle-market British tabloid newspaper. ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Creepers or brothel creepers are a type of shoe that gained popularity in the 1950s with the rise of rockabilly and the teddy boy youth culture in the United States and the United Kingdom. ...
Billy Eckstine (8 July 1914 – 8 March 1993), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as William Clarence Eckstein. ...
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The Ducktail was a haircut style popular during the 1950s. ...
'Teddy girls' adopted a style similar to the lads', with drapes complete with pencil skirts, they added their own touches, such as straw boaters, cameo brooches, espadrilles and coolie hats, but later adopted the American fashions of toreador pants and voluminous circle skirts, wearing their hair in ponytails. Film director Ken Russell took a series of photos of such girls in late 1954 and early 1955 around the East End of London, and in Notting Hill.[1] A postcard depicting a woman wearing a hobble skirt. ...
A ponytail is a hairstyle in which most or all of the hair on the head is pulled away from the face, gathered and secured at the back of the head with a hair tie, clip or similar device, and allowed to hang freely from that point. ...
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell (born July 3, 1927), is a controversial English film director, particularly known for his films about famous composers. ...
The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is an area, with no formal authority or boundaries, that spans a number of administative districts of London in England. ...
Notting Hill is a district of London located to the west of the centre and close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park. ...
As with some other youth culture movements, groups of 'Teds' sometimes formed gangs and enjoyed notoriety following violent clashes with rival gangs, seized upon and often exaggerated by the popular press. The most notable was the infamous Notting Hill riot of 1958, in which Teddy Boys were conspicuous within the racist white mobs who roamed the area attacking black people and their property.[2]. As with most other youth cults, however, most were attracted by the clothes and music rather than violence. The Teddy Boys made it acceptable to care about what one looked like all the time and dress purely for show, instead of just having one's work or school clothes or Sunday best. This trend arose as the disposable income of young people grew during the post-war years. The Teddy Boys were the first youth group in England to differentiate themselves as teenagers, thus helping to create a market solely targeting the new 'teenage' genre. Notting Hill is a district of London located to the west of the centre and close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park. ...
1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In the 1960s, many Teddy Boys became 'Rockers'. Conversely, many Rockers passed themselves off as Teddy Boys by throwing on a drape coat to gain entry into a dance hall where leather jackets were banned. Cadillac Eldorado 1959 - detail I took this picture myself with a Minolta XG-1 and a 28mm f/2. ...
Cadillac Eldorado 1959 - detail I took this picture myself with a Minolta XG-1 and a 28mm f/2. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Eldorado model was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2002. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
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In 1979, British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins published his classic documentary book on Teddy Boy culture, The Teds, which explored the style and values of which defined the phenomenon.[3]
1970s revival During the 1970s, rockabilly music enjoyed a renewed period of popularity and saw a resurgence of interest in 'Teddy Boy' fashions spearheaded by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, through their shop 'Let it Rock' in London's Kings Road. This new generation of Teds adopted some aspects of the 1950's Teds, but with a large amount of Glam Rock influence, including much louder colours for their drape jackets, brothel creepers and socks. Additionally, rather than using grease to style their Duck's Arse hairstyles, they were more likely to use hairspray. Paradoxically, in the latter part of the 1970s, the new generation of Teds became the arch-enemies of the Westwood and McLaren-inspired punk rockers. On his first solo album McCartney, 1970, Paul McCartney had a song entitled 'Teddy Boy' about his youth in Liverpool as a Teddy Boy with the rest of the youthful 'Beatles'. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
1950s Rockabilly book by Harlan Ellison Rockabilly is one of the earliest forms of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. ...
Dame Vivienne Westwood DBE (born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Glossop, Derbyshire, on 8 April 1941) is an English fashion designer largely responsible for modern punk and new wave fashions. ...
Malcolm McLaren (born 22 January 1946) is an English impresario, musician and self-publicist who is best known as being the manager of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. ...
Kings Road is a major east-west street in Londons Chelsea. ...
Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
McCartney (a variant of Macartney or MacCartney) is a surname that originated in Ireland. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, (born 18 June 1942, Liverpool) is an English singer and songwriter. ...
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ...
1990s Edwardian revival The early 1990's saw a revival of the original style of dress as worn by the first Teddy boys by a group of men known as The Edwardian Drape Society (T.E.D.S). Based in the Tottenham area of north London, they are concerned with reclaiming the original style that they feel had become bastardised by pop-groups such as Showaddywaddy and Mud in the 1970's. They have also been the subject of a short film, The Teddy Boys, by Bruce Weber (premiered at the Cambridge Film Festival in July 2006).[4] Tottenham is in the London Borough of Haringey. ...
Showaddywaddy were a 1970s pop group from Leicester, UK. They specialised in revivals of hit songs from the 1950s. ...
Mud were a British glam rock band formed in 1968, best remembered for their single Tiger Feet which was 1974s UK best selling single. ...
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A raggare in his ideal environment, with a beer, on the hood of a 60s car (Picture taken during Power Big Meet in 2005) Two genuine raggare (Picture taken during Power Big Meet in 2005) The ideal Raggar-car When no American fintails are available, raggare are sometimes forced...
Cadillac is a brand of luxury automobile, part of General Motors, produced and mostly sold in the United States and Canada; outside of North America, they have been less successful. ...
The Mods and the Rockers were two British youth movements of the early 1960s. ...
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Punkabilly is a mix of punk rock from the 1970s, and rockabilly. ...
Psychobilly is a genre of music generally described as a mix between the punk rock of the 1970s and the American rockabilly of the 1950s. ...
Vauxhall Cresta The Vauxhall Cresta was probably the most elegant British car of the late 1950s even though it was not sufficiently upmarket for it to be driven by those that considered themselves the elite of British society. ...
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External links
References - ^ Teddygirl.co.uk
- ^ The Guardian
- ^ Magnum Photos
- ^ Cambridge Evening News
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