Teddy girl

A rare and unique glimpse of an under-documented subculture of austere post-war Britain.

Battersea Fun Fair, 1956 Photo Roger Mayne

Polished Rebellion: The Revival of 1950s Teddy Girl Style - WSJ

What's it all about? Teddy Boy is a British subculture typified by young men wearing clothes that were partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period styles which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain after World War II. The subculture started in London in the 1950's, and rapidly spread across the UK. Teddy Boys were the first youth group in England to differentiate themselves as teenagers helping create a youth market. Kids were adamantly pushing…

Teddy Girl June 1955 Picture Post: Jean Rayner – A fourteen year old, with her jeans and old jacket, still in the probationary stage of Teddyism. Later, she may smarten up to senior standards. From the photographer Ken Russell: She had attitude by the truckload. No one paid much attention to the teddy girls before I did them, though there was plenty on teddy boys. They were tough, these kids, they’d been born in the war years and food rationing only ended in about 1954 – a year before I…

Long before Ken Russell —who passed away this year—was a film director, he was a photographer. In tribute, Time LightBox revisits his 1950's photo series The Last of Teddy Girls.

Teddy Girl by thirdrailboutique on Polyvore featuring Chloe, Yumi, Glamorous, Flamingos, Tory Burch

One look that I’ve always admired, but never dived into is the Teddy Girl look of 1950s England. These bad girls combined looks from the time with that of the Edwardian period resulting in so…

Hi there today the 1950s Girl Gang are here. You might have heard of the Teddy Boys, a 1950s rebel youth subculture in Britain characterized by an unlikely style of dres…

Girls being sent home from school in 1946 for wearing "dungarees" and "slickers".