The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the early 1950s to mid-1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing...
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Brothel creeper (section Teddy Boys)
shoes were taken up by the Teddy Boys–along with drainpipe trousers worn with exposed socks and drape jackets. The Bikini boys youth subculture in post-war...
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1950s onward, especially popular with British rock and roll fans such as Teddy Boys. The feature that gives both the boot and shoe their name is the very...
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Ducktail (redirect from Teddy boy cut)
during the 1950s. In Britain, it formed part of the visual identity of teddy boys and rockers, along with the quiff and the elephant's trunk. The style...
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Teddy Boys Don't Knit is the third solo album by Vivian Stanshall. As with his 1974 debut solo album Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead, it consists entirely...
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mufflers. Bōsōzoku styles take inspiration from choppers, greasers, and Teddy boys. Bōsōzoku first started as groups of returning World War II veterans....
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the Teddy Boys, from whom mod fashion inherited its "narcissistic and fastidious [fashion] tendencies" and the immaculate dandy look. The Teddy Boys paved...
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Frock coat (section Teddy Boys)
Yiddish, a frock coat is known as a frak, a sirtuk or a kapotteh. The Teddy Boys, a 1950s UK youth movement, named for their use of Edwardian-inspired...
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traditional social hierarchies, analogous to their British contemporaries the Teddy Boys for example, rather than the Stalinist system itself. Their style and...
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outlines the individual style differences of specific subcultures, such as Teddy boys, mods, rockers, skinheads, and punks. Hebdige emphasizes the historical...
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