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- Title
"All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go"?
- Authors
Nathaus, Klaus
- Abstract
The article discusses the formation of the Teddy Boy youth subculture in postwar Great Britain. The creation of counterculture group identity through fashion is described, the influence of late 19th-century working-class fashion on the subculture is identified, and social change wrought by the subculture is examined. Information is offered on the role of suburbanization in increasing occupation of public spaces such as movie theaters, streets, and theater halls by young people in the 1950s as well as the adoption of coolness into youth culture.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ENGLAND; YOUTH culture; 20TH century counterculture; TEDDY boys; 20TH century fashion; SOCIAL change; COOL (The concept); PUBLIC spaces; SUBURBANIZATION; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2015, Vol 41, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
0340-613X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/gege.2015.41.1.40