Thursday, December 10, 2009

TEDDY BOY

ABOVE:UK -1-1-81-HARD ROCK CAFE-Cliff RICHARD





Teddy Boys’s style was was bred in England from a new generation that rejected clothes worn by their parents. From around 1949 this was expressed as a liking for Edwardian style velvet trimmed skirted coats and specific accessories. "This fashion is thought to have really originated when 500 Jamaicans arrived in Tilbury in 1948 on board the ex troop ship "Empire Windrush" in response to the UK's government plea to the Caribbean for workers. They wore Zoot suits and the Edwardian look is thought to have been an adaptation of the suit the Jamaicans were seen wearing about the East End towns."

http://www.fashion-era.com/1950s/1950s_4_teenagers_teddy_boys.htm

ABOVE PICS:

HEART BLAZER: topshop-spring 09 RTW, DUCK'S ARSE: teddy boy hair,

Far right: Luba tweed coat


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