Drape jackets, velvet collars, turned up trousers and brogue shoes — when Teddy Boys go dancing, they clean up nice.
Teddy Boys at the Dancehall
Series: Threads Ahead
Youth style from the past meets fashion on the street today.
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Jamie Hawkesworth
Whitby goths, London youth and Shetland amusement park workers– Jamie Hawkesworth takes subtle fashion and art photographs of UK kids and teens.
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Ghostwriter Stylin’
90s fashion—you know you love(d) it! Ghostwriter was my favorite PBS show when I was 15.
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40’s Footwear
Bobby socks & saddle shoes—a detailed study of high school students’ footwear at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C.
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Miss Iran, 1978
Before the Isamlic revolution of 1979 in Iran, there were the beauty pageants of 1978 in Iran.
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Looks of ’69
Bellbottoms, beads, bare mid drifts, ginghams, fringe leather vests, long flowing hair–these were the looks of high schoolers, 1969.
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Sweatshirt Monster
Classic teenage scene: get your pals together and wear the same look, at the same time, maybe cause a ruckus—Beaver and his friends buy fad “monster” sweatshirts and agree to wear them to school on the same day…
Leave It To Beaver, the ‘Sweatshirt Monsters’ episode.
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Lord Anthony
It’s 1980 in Britain and along comes the ‘Lord Anthony’ snorkel parka (a warm winter coat leagues ahead of the ones C&A were churning out).
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Keita’s Couples
Sharp style and sweet love fill these portraits of young couples of Bamako, Mali in the early-mid 1950s.
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Soviet Punks
Back in Soviet Russia the government controlled music, fashion, art in schools and on the streets.