Rockabilly Style
ロカビリー・スタイル / early 1950s– / Style / Subculture Style
The music culture where country and rhythm and blues met in the American South appeared in pompadours, high-waisted wide trousers, loose jackets, dyed boots, skirts and denim, establishing rock and roll's cycle of audiences copying performers.
High pompadour or rolled front hair / Pleated high-waisted wide trousers / Short jacket, open-neck shirt, narrow collar or scarf / Cuffed denim, leather shoes and strongly colored boots
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Expressing the speed and youth of early-1950s rock and roll in events, stage work and photography · Joining western, work and tailored clothing into one performer image
- Type
- Choose one slanted script or broad sign face and give it the sweep of a record or automobile curve.
- Composition
- Focus on hair and shoulders above, using the high waist to make one long leg line to the shoes.
- Material
- Combine gabardine, denim, wool and leather in large planes of red, blue and cream as well as black.
- Caution
- A polka-dot skirt and pompadour become costume when isolated. Preserve the mix of country and blues and the exchange between performer and audience.
- Further study
- Memphis rockabilly scene / Country and rhythm-and-blues dress / Elvis Presley's early stage wardrobe
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