The Teddy Boys: Identity

Identity

The Teddy Boys Fashion


The teddy boys are the fashion that is been re-introduced by Savile Row after WWII in London and rapidly spread out over United Kingdom. This particular fashion is highly influenced by the wave of rock and roll music that arose in London. The earlier youth that had their own dress code or they share the same style of clothing in 19th century which called “Scuttlers”, the teddy boys is not much different than these guys just they are the first in England and they made youth as a recognition between child and adult stage and even creates a market for their age. Fashion by that time is a serious matter to be think of by the youths whether they wanted to go to occasions, work, school clothes, as well as their weekend clothing. There are no more shabby clothes, big outfits, or just something they could grab and wear. The fashion plays a big role in determining someone’s character and it should be up-to-date and at its best.
The boys will usually wear a drape (long) jacket  Frock coatA frock coat is a man's coat characterised by knee-length skirts all around the base, popular during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The double-breasted style is sometimes called a Prince Albert . The frock coat is a fitted, long-sleeved coat with a centre vent at the back, and some feature usually in dark shades, sometimes with velvet trim collar and pocket flaps, high-waist "drainpipe" trousers, often showing brightly coloured socks. Favoured footwear was chunky broguesBroguesThe Brogue is a style of low-heeled shoe or boot traditionally characterized by multiple-piece, sturdy leather uppers with decorative perforations and serration along the pieces' visible edges...
, large crepe-soled shoes, often suedeSuedeSuede is a type of leather with a napped finish. However, it can also refer to a similar napped or brushed finish on many kinds of fabrics. The term comes from the French "gants de Suède", which literally means "gloves of Sweden"...  
, or pointed boots known as winklepickers. The costume also included a high-necked loose collar on a white shirt (known as a Mr B. collar because it was often worn by jazz musician Billy Eckstine) William Clarence “Billy” Eckstine was an American singer of ballads and bandleader of the swing era. They also wears a narrow "Slim Jim" tie, and a brocadeBrocadeBrocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads. The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli", comes from Italian broccato meaning "embossed cloth," originally past participle of the verb broccare...
waistcoat
.WaistcoatA waistcoat , sometimes called a vest or a vestee in Canada and the US, is a sleeveless upper-body garment worn over a dress shirt and necktie and below a coat as a part of most men's formal wear, and as the third piece of the three-piece male business suit... there are also a new technique to create something out of normal thoughts just to make it matched with the jacket or the trousers which is dye or coloring the garments so that they could buy them separately and wear them with astonishing color match. 


Preferred hairstyles included long, strongly-moulded greased-up hair with a quiff. The quiff is a hairstyle that combines the 1950s pompadour hairstyle, the 50s flattop, and sometimes a mohawk. The etymology of the word is uncertain but may derive from the French word "coiffe" which can mean either a hairstyle or, going further back, the mail knights wore over their heads and at the front and the side combed back to form a duck's arse. The Duck's Ass is a haircut style that was popular during the 1950s. It is also called the Duck's Tail, the Ducktail, or simply D.A.-History at the rear. Another style was the "Boston", in which the hair was greased straight back and cut square across at the nape. Another accessory that a Teddy Boy is the flick comb in their pockets. It is something necessary for them to keep in best shape at all times.
American influence on European teenagers was huge. Rock and Roll idols including Elvis Presley, Bill Hayley, Jerry Lee Lewis and film stars James Dean and Marlon Brando set fashions almost unwittingly. The main looks for teenagers were greasers and preppies. Greasers followed the standard black leather and denim jeans look set by Marlon Brando in "The Wild One" (1953) and later emulated in the 1978 film called "Grease". They raced about town on motorbikes and were consider outrageous. The overall look is a tailored one and the idea behind it was strictly to look good. The clothes aren't designed to be functional, practical, or anything other than to promote a bad boy image, but they can be expensive because so much needs to be tailored to the individual's body. For teenagers who had jobs but few bills, this indulgent wardrobe type wasn't necessarily a problem throughout the decades.  
Preppie qualities were neatness, tidiness and grooming. Teen girls wore full dirndl or circular skirts with large appliqués on their clothing. Neat pleated skirts were also popular.   The pleated skirts were made from a then new fabric called polyester which helped maintain razor sharp sunray pleating. The skirts were supported by bouffant paper nylon or net petticoats. On top, teens wore scoop neck blouses, back to front cardigans, tight polo necks or three quarter sleeve white fitting shirts often with a scarf knotted cowboy fashion at the side neck. These teen clothing fashions that originated in America, filtered to Britain in watered down fashion. The style was tied to rock and roll in the 1950s, then showed up again in the 1970s (glam rock) and once more in the 1990s. In the 1950s, the Teddy Boy look spread around the world, identified as a "teenage" style, something that had never really existed before.