Comments on: Teddy Boys

By: laurie

laurie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:26:59 +0000

one of my dads freinds was a teddie boy in dundee uk in his day he was a tough cunt even the crays would of thaugh twice about fighting him he used to carry open razors but was a jentleman but if you were a cunt you got cut lol

By: R.

R. — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:50:49 +0000

@Nadya: you are so right.

By: Shay

Shay — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:35:17 +0000

@frightful_elk – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq9S9YnK2rY ;)

By: Jani

Jani — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:54:08 +0000

Well… I digged sometime to find link of that streetstyle-spot for all of you:
http://www.hel-looks.com/?p=image/archives/30/20080605_01/
Okay, it wasn’t from fifties but still long enough for man of his age.

By: Jani

Jani — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:44:38 +0000

Tequila,
The man in first picture lives in Finland I think. He was interviewed shortly for street-style site, where he told he has been like that all the way from 50′s. And how he uses only tailormade clothes and if he can, only shoes made in fifties.

He looks even more menacing in these pictures.

By: BigJonno

BigJonno — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:14:11 +0000

I can’t say I’ve heard anything about Goth on Goth fights, but in my lovely burg of Peterborough there have been a series of fairly well-documented (at least in the local press) clashes between goths/metallers and chavs, to the point where the local council organised paintballing events and the like in an effort to help the two groups find common ground.

I’ve had to aid in the defence of my local (now sadly closed down and turned into another Italian restaurant) when it suffered from a chav invasion. A group of lads took offence to one of the punkier patrons and attacked him, in the pub, at about seven in the evening. He was pulled into the back by some friends and I stood in the narrow corridor that led into the back room, pulled myself up to my full six feet, five and half inches and fended off the unwashed, Burberry-wearing hordes until a sufficiently large group of long-haired metalheads dragged them out. I even managed to lift one by the throat and throw him back at his sub-literate bretheren.

Suffice to say, I did not pay for my own drinks for a while. Good times.

By: Tequila

Tequila — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:14:48 +0000

I dig that first pic…mainly cause it has that vibe of an old world master villain…um…I mean villian. Plus he actually looks comfortable. The photography is stellar…subject matter doesn’t seem all that different than the Pachuco era & subculture really. Different cuts to the suits of course but the over all mood seems the same.

Violent Rival Goth Gangs…sounds like that should be the title to some strange experimental band. Though in a more literal sense…I wonder what that would even be? Now I’m curious if there are violent rival Steampunk gangs…I’m sure if they exist they have some of the most beautifully overdecorated weaponry around. Kinda like those decorated AK-47′s you see in Afghanistan…only in this case with more brass I’d imagine.

By: frightful_elk

frightful_elk — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:00:40 +0000

You may also be intrested in Mods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_(lifestyle) who grew out of the teddy boys and beat up the rockers instead of each other. And cult film Quadrophenia which is about them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia_(film)

By: Nadya

Nadya — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:30:34 +0000

Love is a thug in a suit.

By: Camilla

Camilla — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:09:09 +0000

I attended an event in which a brawl brok out between the goths and the death metal fans. They two groups were virtually indistinguishable from each other, the majority of both clad in black band t-shirts and black illfitting jeans.