The Teds

By Chris Steele-Perkins & Richard Smith, Travelling Light/Exit London, 1987. Second Edition. Text in English. Unpaginated (120 pages). 27,9 x 20,3 cm. Condition : Excellent.

85€

The reference book on the Teds movement. The Teddy Boys movement, which emerged from the British subculture of the 1950s, was made up of young English people (the Teddy Boys) wearing Edwardian-inspired clothing and often seen as violent and harsh. The city of London was the epicenter. The fashion quickly spread across the UK and was associated with rock ‘n’ roll from its earliest days. Although there were already, in the 19th century, in Manchester and Liverpool, gangs of young people, called scuttlers, with their own dress codes, the Teddy Boys were the first to impose themselves as teenagers, thus contributing to the emergence of a consumer culture specific to youth.