Part 1 Dressing in velvet collared long drapes seem to have gone out of fashion in Britain after the summer of 1958 with the Notting Hill Riots having equated teds not only with hooliganism but with out-and-out racism. Coincidentally the rock’n’roll hits from America were beginning to soften the beat and to add orchestral arrangements […]
The Golden Era
1942 The Zazous
Part 1 The origins of the Edwardian style in late 1940s London It has often enough been written that the teddy boys were a wholly British phenomenon and that their sartorial style was influenced by the revival of an Edwardian style after World War II – whence the name. The style as developed by the […]
