Subculture Style

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Dictionary entry

  1. Zoot Suit 1930s–1940s / Style

    The earliest street style: suits with wildly exaggerated shoulders and pegged trousers, by which Black and Mexican-American youth asserted their existence in a discriminatory society.

  2. Teddy Boys 1950s– / Style

    Working-class youth appropriating Edwardian upper-class dress — postwar Britain's first youth subculture and the prototype of all that followed.

  3. Mod late 1950s–1960s / Style

    Rebellion through refinement — slim Italian suits, scooters and modern jazz — completing the marriage of consumerism and youth culture.

  4. Hippie Style 1960s–1970s / Style

    Made the counterculture visible by refusing ready-made clothes — handwork, folk dress and secondhand mixed — bringing DIY and eclecticism into fashion.

  5. Goth Fashion late 1970s– / Style

    The aesthetics of black dress born from post-punk music, borrowing Victorian mourning and horror-film signs to make darkness a communal style.

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