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Seen on eBay. Not sure when from. Initially I thought 30s or even 40s because of the non chin strap, biggish collar but the photo itself appears older. Opinions welcome.
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BlueTrain
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I'd go along with the 20s or 30s for the photo. However, one of my uncles (I had about 15) who owned a gas station, a restaurant and a sawmill, wore bib overall all the time, well into the 1960s. He wore a hat, too, but it was in better shape than the one in the photo. My father, who was a truck driver and never wore jeans or bib overalls that I recall, thought he should have dressed a little better than he did.
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Maynard Fried-San
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Teddy Girls, London, circa 1955 (Ken Russell):
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denimsince65
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Some great bomb sites to pose in back in them days.... |
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CSL
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I've always loved these^^
There's a set of pics as I recall.
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Maynard Fried-San
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As requested CSL
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oh yes!
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denimsince65
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For me, I need a little context here.
Did Russell just go out and photograph folks that he knew to be "Teddy Girls" because he wanted to pursue his "art"? And how, in 1955, did the 27 year old Russell even know what a "Teddy Girl" was - or looked like? Did he just stop folks in the street? Well no... What actually happened was that Picture Post magazine commissioned him (you know - for money), as a reasonably well known photographer at the time, to illustrate an article following up a piece by that well known artibiter of taste and reasoned thinking - the Daily Express. Here's part of what the Express had written and published in June 1954 about a girl who had recently been arrested in Southsea: “She was auburn-haired and fifteen. She wore tight-fitting trousers, a sweater, and brightly coloured socks. And she carried a small dagger. She appeared at Portsmouth Children’s Court yesterday wearing a “split” skirt, a diaphanous blouse, and high heeled sandals. The policeman said she was in a fight at Southsea with other girls. It began when two girls called her a “Teddy Girl”.” Perfectly balanced, and completely unsalacious, as we can always expect from our esteemed national newspapers. Just ten years later, they horrified the country with tales of "Mods & Rockers" kicking seven shades of shit out of each other in Brighton. Was any of it true? Well, I know the Mods & Rockers thing was complete bollox. As mods, if we had scuffles with anybody, it was with other mods, and the local "greasers" (rockers) would give us a hand! But not such good press. So, Ken Russell went down to the Mayflower youth club, and offered a few bob to any young lasses who were "Teddy Girls", to have their pictures taken. Surprisingly, there were quite a few there that night. "Ooh, see you in Canning Town, tomorrow, Mr Russell, love. And bring the money....Ooh, I think I'll borrow my grandma's hat" Edited by denimsince65 - 13 Mar 2019 at 3:58pm |
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Maynard Fried-San
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I think a lot of that is obvious from the text in the link I posted above. There are 2 pictures of the quartet of girls whose photo I posted, 1 is credited as north Kensington, the other as the East End. They’re wearing the same clothes and the photos are almost certainly taken on the same day and in the same area so one label is wrong. However, I like the photos, which is why I posted.
Quick question to you denimsince65, did you ever wear Lee Cooper jeans in your youth and do you know if they used selvage denim? |
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