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It was an image, which came to be associated with a
whole new culture for teenagers in the 1950s along with rock and roll music,
jukeboxes and coffee bars. Other teenage cults (often with working-class basis)
were to follow and the Mods and Rockers were to dominate the first half the
1960s.
During
the 1950s and early 1960s there was a progressive paring down of the male
silhouette. Suits tended increasingly towards a narrower cut with slimmer
trousers and more fitted jackets which had a natural shoulder-line, smaller
lapels and the single-breasted fastening. This trend owed much to the influence
of the Italian designers and the so-called ‘Italian suit’, rather tightly
and sharply cut in light cloths, was greatly admired. |
