Teddy Boys
テディボーイズ / 1950s– / Style / Subculture Style
Working-class youth appropriating Edwardian upper-class dress — postwar Britain's first youth subculture and the prototype of all that followed.
Long drape jackets / Slim ties / Crepe-soled shoes / The quiff
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and exemplary cases · Extracting principles that transfer beyond dress
- Type
- Observe the letters and signs of the era and community referred to
- Composition
- Translate silhouette and proportion into composition
- Material
- Verify the material conditions: cloth, tailoring, the wearer's body
- Caution
- Never peel off the garment's signs alone. Verify who wore it, why, and against what.
- Further study
- Appropriating the Edwardian style / the reception of rock and roll / class and the politics of dress