Styles which start life on the street corner have a way of ending up on the back of top models on the world's most prestigious catwalks
Zooties:
late 30s : zoot suit- jazz
Weatern Style:
40s to 50s: Gave Jeans / Denim to the fashion world
Bikers
40-50
Hipcats and Hipsters
Invented by 'bebop' the music. Skin tight \, tight, scarf, black baret
Beats and Beatniks and Existentialists
very normal style. Those of us who today wear workshirts, sweatshirts and jeans do so in part because of a tradition of sartorial nonchalance which the beats began. - Lack of interest in apperance and dress. Indifference to style.
Beatnick- 1960
Teddy Boys
Jackets - single breasted, long, fitted velvet trimmed at necks and cuffs. Elvis Presley- "rock and roll"
Modernist
"Blues" 1950s 'Cool'
Cool School
Suits with no collars. No cuffs or cufflinks. Ties very thin and sharp
Folkies
Late 1950's
Brighter Colors- decorations
Rockabillies:
1954
Liberal use of white and pastel coloured fabrics and generous quantities of decoration ( including diamond shaped designs, piping, embroidery, visible stitching, added blocks of colors, inset seams in vivid, contrasting colours and extra wide shirt collars worn over the jacket labels. Trousers tended to be 'pegged'- roomy at the top but reduced to a minimum at the ankle. Shoes: snow white. In 1985, the style had shifted from immaculate suits and white shoes to denim jackets and jeans so worn and frayed that only sweat seemed to keep them from falling off.
La dolce Vita:
50-60
The sharp short jackets, and trim, tapered trousers which looked so right on a vespa signified a very carefree lighter approach to life.
Coffee- Bar Cowboys and Ton-up boys: 1963
Ton-up Boys
Derived from 'doing the ton'- slang for the rite of passage of exceeding 100 mph on your bike.
Whatever the jackets were made of, they were worn over a hand knitted aran sweater, with jeans and with a thick pair of white socks rolled over the top of chunky boots. The looks was embellished by with a dazzling white silk scarf.
Surfers: 1950s
Chose a style of dress that was appropriately loose and casual. Bold stripes and slashes of colour in a way which set them apart from the drab beats. Tanned skin, sunbleached hair and bare feet or minimal sandals.
Mods: 1958
Boy
Smoothed hair with burnt in parting, neat white Italian rounded collar shirt, short roman Jacket very tailored ( tow little vents, three buttons) no turn-up narrow trousers with 17-inch bottoms absolute max, pointed toe shoes and a white mac flying by his side.
Girl
Sports short hemlines, seamless stockings, pointed toe heeled stiletto shoes, crepe nylon rattling petticoat, short blazer jacket, hair done up in elfin style. face pale.
Rockers: Early 1960s: "Rock and roll"
Rude Boys and Two Tone
Swinging London the Psychedelics:
66-67Very Different colors/ patters/ fabrics
Hippies : 1970
Head band/ long hair
Greasers: 1969
They wore jeans so soaked with oil that they positively glistened and so frayed that two pairs are often worn as one.
Funk: 1970s
"the harder they come"- "blatant in your face sexual possibilites of dress" eg. - enormous flares in the trouser legs served to foucs the eye on the contrasting ultratight fit around the crotch and bottom.
Glam: 1973
"sorrow" - matching hair, glittering, space-age outfits, and chunky platform shoes.
Rastafarians: 1980
Belts hats, tan, epaulletts, badges, scarves, wristbands made in the sacred colors of Ethiopian flags, red gold and green.
HeadBangers: 1970
"heavy metal"- Hippy style scruffiness (battered denim, long hair), psychedelic glitz, rocker style studded leather, poodle haircut, spandex jeans, leather, snakeskin, leopard prints and profusion of metal accessories.
Punks; 70-80
Coloured hair, sininster black leather, aggressive metal studs, perverse bondage trousers, day-glow artifice and a snarl. Bin-liners, Dr. Marten Boots, Ripped T-shirts, dog collars, safety pins, tight drain pipes
New Romantics
Soft, extravagant fabrics, elegance and finery
Raggamuffins: 1980- Jamaican Ragga
Ragga girls wore startling see-through or slashed outfits and their "betty-rider" shorts, which often revealed more than they concealed. At the same time, the men's distictive 'click-suits' made of an intricate patchwork of shreaded or stonewashed denim decorated with applique or rich brocade.
Technos and Cyberpunks: 1988
Like their ear-splitting, mechanical music, their clothing styles . resisted fashionable imitation. Dressed in anti radiation suits and marks, floak jackets and urban commando camouflage, the Technos look like something out of sci-fi disaster movie.
Goths:1981
A profusion of black velvets, lace, fishnets and leather tinged with scarlet or purple, accessoried with tightly laced corsets, gloves, precarious stilettos and silver jewelery depicting religion and occult themes. Hair was jet black, back combed to reach the stars. Face were pancaked to deathly white with eyes and lips slashed with blood-red or black
Casuals : 1983
British Football
Zooties:
late 30s : zoot suit- jazz
Weatern Style:
40s to 50s: Gave Jeans / Denim to the fashion world
Bikers
40-50
Hipcats and Hipsters
Invented by 'bebop' the music. Skin tight \, tight, scarf, black baret
Beats and Beatniks and Existentialists
very normal style. Those of us who today wear workshirts, sweatshirts and jeans do so in part because of a tradition of sartorial nonchalance which the beats began. - Lack of interest in apperance and dress. Indifference to style.
Beatnick- 1960
Teddy Boys
Jackets - single breasted, long, fitted velvet trimmed at necks and cuffs. Elvis Presley- "rock and roll"
Modernist
"Blues" 1950s 'Cool'
Cool School
Suits with no collars. No cuffs or cufflinks. Ties very thin and sharp
Folkies
Late 1950's
Brighter Colors- decorations
Rockabillies:
1954
Liberal use of white and pastel coloured fabrics and generous quantities of decoration ( including diamond shaped designs, piping, embroidery, visible stitching, added blocks of colors, inset seams in vivid, contrasting colours and extra wide shirt collars worn over the jacket labels. Trousers tended to be 'pegged'- roomy at the top but reduced to a minimum at the ankle. Shoes: snow white. In 1985, the style had shifted from immaculate suits and white shoes to denim jackets and jeans so worn and frayed that only sweat seemed to keep them from falling off.
La dolce Vita:
50-60
The sharp short jackets, and trim, tapered trousers which looked so right on a vespa signified a very carefree lighter approach to life.
Coffee- Bar Cowboys and Ton-up boys: 1963
Ton-up Boys
Derived from 'doing the ton'- slang for the rite of passage of exceeding 100 mph on your bike.
Whatever the jackets were made of, they were worn over a hand knitted aran sweater, with jeans and with a thick pair of white socks rolled over the top of chunky boots. The looks was embellished by with a dazzling white silk scarf.
Surfers: 1950s
Chose a style of dress that was appropriately loose and casual. Bold stripes and slashes of colour in a way which set them apart from the drab beats. Tanned skin, sunbleached hair and bare feet or minimal sandals.
Mods: 1958
Boy
Smoothed hair with burnt in parting, neat white Italian rounded collar shirt, short roman Jacket very tailored ( tow little vents, three buttons) no turn-up narrow trousers with 17-inch bottoms absolute max, pointed toe shoes and a white mac flying by his side.
Girl
Sports short hemlines, seamless stockings, pointed toe heeled stiletto shoes, crepe nylon rattling petticoat, short blazer jacket, hair done up in elfin style. face pale.
Rockers: Early 1960s: "Rock and roll"
Black leather jackets decorated with rows of metal studs and handpainted insignia, their wincle pickers as sharp as knife.
Rude Boys and Two Tone
Swinging London the Psychedelics:
66-67Very Different colors/ patters/ fabrics
Hippies : 1970
Head band/ long hair
Greasers: 1969
They wore jeans so soaked with oil that they positively glistened and so frayed that two pairs are often worn as one.
Funk: 1970s
"the harder they come"- "blatant in your face sexual possibilites of dress" eg. - enormous flares in the trouser legs served to foucs the eye on the contrasting ultratight fit around the crotch and bottom.
Glam: 1973
"sorrow" - matching hair, glittering, space-age outfits, and chunky platform shoes.
Rastafarians: 1980
Belts hats, tan, epaulletts, badges, scarves, wristbands made in the sacred colors of Ethiopian flags, red gold and green.
HeadBangers: 1970
"heavy metal"- Hippy style scruffiness (battered denim, long hair), psychedelic glitz, rocker style studded leather, poodle haircut, spandex jeans, leather, snakeskin, leopard prints and profusion of metal accessories.
Punks; 70-80
Coloured hair, sininster black leather, aggressive metal studs, perverse bondage trousers, day-glow artifice and a snarl. Bin-liners, Dr. Marten Boots, Ripped T-shirts, dog collars, safety pins, tight drain pipes
New Romantics
Soft, extravagant fabrics, elegance and finery
Raggamuffins: 1980- Jamaican Ragga
Ragga girls wore startling see-through or slashed outfits and their "betty-rider" shorts, which often revealed more than they concealed. At the same time, the men's distictive 'click-suits' made of an intricate patchwork of shreaded or stonewashed denim decorated with applique or rich brocade.
Technos and Cyberpunks: 1988
Like their ear-splitting, mechanical music, their clothing styles . resisted fashionable imitation. Dressed in anti radiation suits and marks, floak jackets and urban commando camouflage, the Technos look like something out of sci-fi disaster movie.
Goths:1981
A profusion of black velvets, lace, fishnets and leather tinged with scarlet or purple, accessoried with tightly laced corsets, gloves, precarious stilettos and silver jewelery depicting religion and occult themes. Hair was jet black, back combed to reach the stars. Face were pancaked to deathly white with eyes and lips slashed with blood-red or black
Casuals : 1983
British Football
Psychobilies: 1991
Tatooting - cartoon quiffs sometimes dyed green or purple and always thrust out far beyond the expectations of gravity. Aggressive studded belts and doc Martens, shredded bleached jeans and leather jackets painted with post nuclear holocaust imagery.
Pervs
Tightly laced corsets, stockings and suspenders and stiletto heels.
Tatooting - cartoon quiffs sometimes dyed green or purple and always thrust out far beyond the expectations of gravity. Aggressive studded belts and doc Martens, shredded bleached jeans and leather jackets painted with post nuclear holocaust imagery.
Pervs
Tightly laced corsets, stockings and suspenders and stiletto heels.
