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Yearly Archives: 2013

  • October 10, 2013

    Who Were the Teddy Girls?

    BY Eve Dawoud

    Writer and Teenage Blog reader Eve Dawoud saw our previous post on Teddy Girls and wanted to share with us selections of interviews she’s conducted with some of the real people in the photos — Mary Toovey, Elsie Hendon, Iris Thornton and Ted Burton — for an ongoing research project.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 8, 2013

    Veils and Cleats: Zanzibar’s New Generation Queens

    BY Megan Shutzer and Katie Tygielski

    On the island of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous state off the coast of Tanzania, there is an old cultural belief that Islam and women’s soccer are incompatible.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • October 4, 2013

    Whither Punk?

    BY Lucas Habte

    What does “punk” mean in 2013? The Metropolitan Museum of art and Vogue hosted their punk-themed Costume Institute Gala this summer in New York City.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • September 29, 2013

    How To Be a Mid-Century British Teen

    BY Lucas Habte

    In the years that followed the birth of the “teenager” in 1945, British and American adults had no choice but to come to terms with the cultural and economic power of this new group.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 28, 2013

    Donyale Luna, First Black Supermodel

    BY Lucas Habte

    Much of the conversation surrounding New York Fashion Week has rightfully criticized the fashion industry’s continued refusal to hire non-white models, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a long history of black supermodels rising (if briefly) to the top of the fashion world. 

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 26, 2013

    Orson Welles, Most Precocious Teen Ever

    BY Lucas Habte

    Orson Welles made his first short film, Hearts of Age when he was just 19 years old.

    FROM:Archive Fever14903Tube Time

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  • September 20, 2013

    New Blood — Emerging British Photographers

    BY Claire Healy

    Editors Note: This is the first in a series of posts on London teen culture, past and present, to celebrate our UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival Oct 10-13.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • September 19, 2013

    20th Anniversary of Dazed and Confused

    BY Lucas Habte

    Richard Linklater’s seminal high school comedy, Dazed and Confused, turns 20 on September 24th!

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • September 12, 2013

    Throwback Thursday: BEAUTY

    BY Lucas Habte

    Miss Teen America started in the 1980s, but teen beauty pageants have been around for much, much longer than that.

    FROM:Throwback Thursday

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  • September 10, 2013

    Drowning in Unemployment!

    BY Lucas Habte

    This effective, inadvertently Buñuel-y 1979 ad for the Scottish Youth Opportunities Programme dramatizes the effects of youth unemployment in Scotland.

    FROM:Tube Time

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