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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the fifties youth throughout the West rebelled. America the cultural centre had the outlaw motorcycle gangs as depicted in the film The Wild One. Brando played the mean moody and brutal Wild One. The British Censor found this film so subversive that he banned it for nineteen years. Late in the decade Australia had the Bodgies and their female counterparts the Widgies. Bodgies wore the leather jacket the aggressive symbol of teenage revolt and drainpipe trousers; rode motorbikes and stolen cars. The Widgies had their hair piled high in beehives; wore stilleto-heeled shoes and tight slit pencil skirts or ski-slacks. Bleached blonde hair and pink lipstick. The Japanese Tayozoku the ‘Sun Cult’ -wore drainpipes sunglasses and Hawaian shirts. Their hair was chopped in a crew-cut mop: the Shintaro. They drank brawled screwed and for a while attracted the interest of mass media. The British Teddy Boy reflected this trend. In London after the War a style developed in homosexual circles half-collars of velvet on long Edwardian jackets. It was soon adopted by young upper-class Guards Officers a last nostalgic wince for the era of Edward VII ‘Teddy’ the grandeur that was gone for ever. After considerable Press the style moved down market and out into the working- class suburbs. It lost its twee associations and became the high-fashion of a new breed. It took on more menacing connotations and the Guards Officers dropped it fast. By the beginning of 1954 it was purely working class.