You may have read Ryan Chang’s social history of the Teddy Boy subculture that we published last September, but are you familiar with the Teddy Girls? 

Via Messy Nessy Chic:

To understand the Teddy Girls style, we first have to go back to the boys culture. They emerged in England as post-war austerity was coming to an end and working class teenagers were able to afford good clothes and began to adopt the upper class Saville Row revival of dandy Edwardian fashion. By the mid 1950s, second-hand Edwardian suits were readily available on sale in markets as they had become unwearable by the upper-class once the Teddy Boys had started sporting them.

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