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OLDEN LIFE

WHAT WERE Teddy Boys?

Seventy years ago, Britain seemed under threat from menacing young men who favoured exaggerated frock coats and drainpipe trousers.

Savile Row devised the ‘Edwardian’ suits for their wealthy clientele in 1950, and working-class youths across Britain quickly adopted this look. A article of

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