I found this fashion style from the early to mid 1950′s while looking for inspiration for my ODWCS and fell down the teddy girl whole. I thought I’d share with you all who the Teddy girls were. All information below was found here, http://subcultureslist.com/teddy-girls/
Teddy Girls also known as Judies, a little-known aspect of the more well-known Teddy Boyssubculture, were working class Londoners, some of them Irish immigrants, who dressed in neo-Edwardian fashions. The Teddy Girls were the first British female youth subculture. Teddy Girls as a group remain historically almost invisible, not many photos were taken, only one article was published in the 1950s about Teddy Girls, as they were considered less interesting than the Teddy Boys.
TEDDY GIRLS: ARE TEDDY GIRLS REALLY PART OF SUBCULTURE
Back in 1950s, there were small groups of girls who saw themselves as Teddy Girls, and who identified with Teddy Boy culture, dancing with the Teds at the Elephant and Castle, going to the cinema with them and apparently getting some vicarious pleasure from relating the violent nature of the incidents instigated by the Teddy Boys. But there are good reasons why this could not have been an option open to many working-class girls.
Though girls participated in the general rise in the disposable income available to youth in the 1950’s, girls’ wages were, relatively, not as high as boys’. More important, patterns of spending would have been powerfully structured in a different direction for girls from that of boys. The working class girl, though temporarily at work, remained more focussed on home. More time was spent in the home.
Teddy boy culture was an escape from the family into the street and the cafe, as well as evening and weekend trips ‘into town’. Teddy Girl would certainly dress up and go out, either with boy-friends or, as a group of girls, with a group of boys. But there would be much less ‘hanging about’ and street-corner involvement. While Teddy Boys could spend a lot of time ‘hanging about’ in the territory, the pattern for Teddy Girls was probably more firmly structured between being at home.
In 1950s there was certainly more attention than in pre-war youth culture to the teenage leisure market and its accompanying manifestations (concerts, records, pin-ups, magazines), and girls as well as boys would have shared in this. But many of these activities would have been easily appropriated into the traditionally defined cultural space of a home or peer-centred girls’ ‘culture’ -operated mainly within the home, or visiting a girl-friend’s home, or at parties, without involving the riskier and more frowned-on path of hanging about the streets or cafes.
This would lead us to suggest that Teddy Girls were present, but in marginal or at least highly patterned ways, in Teddy boy subculture: but that – following the position outlined above -Teddy Girls ‘involvement’ was sustained by a complementary, but different subcultural pattern. The response of many Teddy Boys to the rise of rock-and-roll in this period was themselves to become active if highly amateur performers (the rise of the skiffle groups), Teddy Girls participants in this culture became either fans
or record collectors and readers of the ‘teenage-hero’ magazines.
http://subcultureslist.com/teddy-girls/
http://www.designlovefest.com/2016/03/teddy-girls/
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