Rock and Roll Edwardian Street The Look-Working Class Teenage
grassroots on Street Fashion youth groups with their own dress codes- The Teddy Girls's „choices
of clothes were not intended strictly for aesthetic effect; these girls were
collectively rejecting post-war austerity. They were young working-class women
from the poorer districts of London. They would typically leave school at the
age of 14 or 15, and work in factories or offices. Teddy Girls spent much of their free time
buying or making their trademark clothes. It was a head-turning, fastidious
style from the fashion houses, which had launched haute-couture clothing lines recalling
the Edwardian era.
They wore drape jackets, pencil skirts, hobble skirts, long
plaits, rolled-up jeans, flat shoes, tailored jackets with velvet collars,
straw boater hats, cameo brooches, espadrilles, coolie hats and long, elegant
clutch bags. Later they adopted the American fashions of toreador pants,
voluminous circle skirts, and hair in ponytails.
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