TEDDY BOYS In the post war menswear the most dramatic development took place in Britain, where in 1953 young working class men began to adopt the, "Edwardian" style of dress of the late 1940's. The "teddy boys" took this upper class, somewhat dandified look, the Chief element of which were a long draped jacket and narrow "drain pipe" trousers and added with it narrow pointed shoes and thin ties. IMPORTANT NOTE T-shirt also became an integral part of the dress as a regular style. Jeans and motor like jacket of the same material with greased hair with side burns extended came in hot fashion. Teenage girls wore tight sweaters and cardigans over pointed brassieres with circular skirts held out stiffly by layers of nylon petticoats. Tight trousers or Jeans with oversized jumpers were also popular with both sexes as part of the an school/beatnik look, which featured large quantities of black Young people around the globe danced to the new trines of rock-n-roll music and it was from here that the fashion and music industries became linked forever. 1960's can be divided into two distinct periods. The first 1960 to 1967 (The swinging sixties) when fashion focused entirely on youth and ready to make became popular all over Europe and the first "Boutiques" evolved.Tuesday, December 23, 2008
TEDDY BOYS
TEDDY BOYS In the post war menswear the most dramatic development took place in Britain, where in 1953 young working class men began to adopt the, "Edwardian" style of dress of the late 1940's. The "teddy boys" took this upper class, somewhat dandified look, the Chief element of which were a long draped jacket and narrow "drain pipe" trousers and added with it narrow pointed shoes and thin ties. IMPORTANT NOTE T-shirt also became an integral part of the dress as a regular style. Jeans and motor like jacket of the same material with greased hair with side burns extended came in hot fashion. Teenage girls wore tight sweaters and cardigans over pointed brassieres with circular skirts held out stiffly by layers of nylon petticoats. Tight trousers or Jeans with oversized jumpers were also popular with both sexes as part of the an school/beatnik look, which featured large quantities of black Young people around the globe danced to the new trines of rock-n-roll music and it was from here that the fashion and music industries became linked forever. 1960's can be divided into two distinct periods. The first 1960 to 1967 (The swinging sixties) when fashion focused entirely on youth and ready to make became popular all over Europe and the first "Boutiques" evolved.
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