ModMod (from modernist) is a subculture that originated in London in the late 1950s and peaked in the early-to-mid 1960s.

Music: modern jazz, ska, reggae, R&B, soul, British bands such as The Who, The Small Faces etc Fashion: Carnaby street fashion, mainly tailored but later, brands such as Fred Perry and Ben Sherman. If you were female, wear short bright coloured frocks and tall bright boots.Attitude: Obsession with style. Reputation for fighting Social Life: Socialized in groups at seaside resorts on the South of E England at weekends

Cathy McGowan, who hosted the television n pop music show Ready Steady Go!, became known as the "Queen of the Mods"

Freak SceneThe freak scene was a term used by a slightly post-hippie and pre-punk style of bohemian subculture.

Music: David Bowie, Pink FloydFashion: Long hair; Hair dye; Historical; A group were made to seem like a gathering of charactersAttitude: RelaxedSocial Life: Went to different rock festivals, happenings and alternative society gatherings of various kinds.Attitude from Wider Society: thought they were “freaks”

TEDDY BOYS

By Steff et Michael

ORIGINS OF TEDDY BOYS

Working class youths adopted this style as their own. They

created the classic Teddy Boy look. The classic Ted had a long

jacket with a velvet collar. The velvet collar was a particularly

important part of the look. The jackets were usually in plain

material with blues or greys being common. It was during the

seventies revival that the Teddy Boy look acquired the bright

shocking pink, electric blue and lime green colour schemes, for

example, as is illustrated by the seventies band,

Showaddywaddy.

WHAT THEY WORE

Teddys wore drainpipe trousers and narrow ties,

often with horizontal stripes. Sometimes they wore an

American style bootlace tie as an alternative. Thick

crepe-soled suede shoes, known as brothel creepers

completed the outfit.

PHOTOS

HIPPIESThe dude culture

How to spot your Hippie

Loose leather jacket

Head band accessories

Unruly facial hair

Beaded Bracelets

Levi Strauss jeans

Acoustic instruments (out of tune)

Coned-converse

Tin cup

Origin of the hippie• This subculture was largely music and drug

orientated.• Around the 60s teenagers had more money so a

revolution of easy access to drugs started.• When this was combined with popular rock n’ roll

and folk sounds, a ‘psychedelic’ movement in music was encouraged.

• This further encouraged a whole movement in freedom or liberalists as the ‘relaxed’ nature of this sub culture lead some people to follow very simple lives.

• This then lead to radical hippies which would perform protests in aid of global causes until the start of the 70s when the culture slowly died out.

References In The Media

Things Typically Associated With The Subculture

Bikers!!!!!

• Until the post-World War II years, motorcycling held a prestigious position within British society and enjoyed a positive image, being associated with wealth and glamour. Starting in the 1950s, the middle classes were able to buy inexpensive motorcars, and motorcycles became transport for the poor.

• The rocker subculture came about due to factors such as the end of post-war rationing in the UK, a general rise in prosperity for working class youths, the recent availability of credit and financing for young people, the influence of American popular music and films such as The Wild One, the construction of race track-like arterial ring roads around British cities, and the development of transport cafes. These factors coincided with a peak in British motorcycle engineering.

• Rockers immersed themselves in rock and roll music and fashions, and began to be known as much for their devotion to the music as they were for their motorcycles. Many rockers favoured 1950s and early-1960s rock and roll by artists such as Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Elvis Presley; music that George Melly called at the time, "screw and smash" music.

• Two groups emerged, one identifying with Marlon Brando's image in The Wild One and with the Hells Angels, hanging around transport cafes, projecting nomadic romanticism, violence, anti-authoritarianism and anti-domesticity; the other being non-riders, similar in image but less involved in the cult of the motorbike.

1950s-1960s Teen Sub-cultures