Teddy Boys

The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the early 1950s to mid-1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing clothes partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain after the Second World War.^[1]

Early 1950s London gang culture was portrayed in the 1953 film .^[4]

T.E.D.S. was the subject of a short film, The Teddy Boys, by .^[34]

Teddies inspired the gang of "droogs" in 's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange.^[35]

In one scene in the 1977 documentary Punk in London a group of teddy boys is interviewed about their rivalry with punks.

The Teddy Boy subculture of the late 1950s is depicted in the stylised neo-western, Dandilicious, a film on .^[37]

a similar subculture in Australia and New Zealand

a similar subculture in the United States

subculture said to predate and overlap with Teddy Boys

a similar subculture in Sweden

a similar subculture in Soviet Russia

a similar subculture in Finland (Finnish Wikipedia)

. Includes photos of the Teddy Boy style and subculture from 1950 through present day.

. Video interview. Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine