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    The Teddy Boys were a British subculture that emerged in the 1950s, taking style inspiration from Edwardian fashion. They wore drape jackets, tight drainpipe trousers, brothel creepers or beetle crusher shoes, and styled their hair with quiffs or slicked straight back. The Teddy Boys differentiated themselves as one of the first British youth cultures and embraced American rock and roll music. Their flashy Edwardian-inspired outfits were often expensive and paid for through weekly installments.

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    The Teddy Boys were a British subculture that emerged in the 1950s, taking style inspiration from Edwardian fashion. They wore drape jackets, tight drainpipe trousers, brothel creepers or beetle crusher shoes, and styled their hair with quiffs or slicked straight back. The Teddy Boys differentiated themselves as one of the first British youth cultures and embraced American rock and roll music. Their flashy Edwardian-inspired outfits were often expensive and paid for through weekly installments.

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    The Teddy Boys were a British subculture that emerged in the 1950s, taking style inspiration from Edwardian fashion. They wore drape jackets, tight drainpipe trousers, brothel creepers or beetle crusher shoes, and styled their hair with quiffs or slicked straight back. The Teddy Boys differentiated themselves as one of the first British youth cultures and embraced American rock and roll music. Their flashy Edwardian-inspired outfits were often expensive and paid for through weekly installments.

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    Teddy Boys 1950s

    The definition of Teddy Boys Style

     The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British subculture of young men
    wearing clothes partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the
    Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce
    in Britain after the Second World War.

    Typical black suede creepers fashionable during the


    1950s
    History

     A mainly British phenomenon,the Teddy Boy subculture started among


    teenagers in London in the early 1950s, and rapidly spread across the UK,
    becoming strongly associated with American rock and roll music. After
    World War II, male youths in delinquent gangs who had adopted
    Edwardian-era fashion were sometimes known as Cosh Boys,but the name
    Teddy Boy was coined when a 23 September 1953 Daily Express
    newspaper report headline shortened Edwardian to Teddy.
     Teddy Boys were the first youth group in Britain to differentiate themselves
    as teenagers, helping create a youth market. The US film Blackboard
    Jungle marked a watershed in the United Kingdom.
    Style

     Teddy Boy clothing included drape jackets reminiscent of 1940s American zoot
    suits worn by Italian-American, Chicano and African-American communities
    (such as Cab Calloway or Louis Jordan), usually in dark shades, sometimes
    with a velvet trim collar and pocket flaps, and high-waist "drainpipe" trousers,
    often exposing the socks. The outfit also included a high-necked loose-
    collared white shirt (known as a Mr. B. collar, because it was often worn by jazz
    musician Billy Eckstine); a narrow "Slim Jim" tie or western bolo tie, and a
    brocade waistcoat. The clothes were mostly tailor-made at great expense,
    and paid through weekly installments.
     Favoured footwear included highly polished Oxfords, chunky brogues, and
    crepe-soled shoes, often suede (known as brothel creepers or beetle
    crushers). Preferred hairstyles included long, strongly-moulded greased-up hair
    with a quiff at the front and the side combed back to form a duck's arse at
    the rear. Another style was the "Boston", in which the hair was greased straight
    back and cut square across at the nape.

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