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Admin12.08.2021

Teen Dances of the 1950s

One incentive for new variations was the rebelliousness of the time — teens didn't want to dance like their parents who were actively disapproving of their lifestyle, so they invented a wide range of step and stylereplacements.
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Admin06.07.2021

Why did youth culture start in the 1950s?

Self harm is on the rise too, again predominantly among girls.
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Admin29.08.2021

Dating Rituals of the 1950s

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Admin27.08.2021

How Elvis Presley Ushered in the Era of Teen Consumer Culture

It is known that in England, a group of young men who rejected the shabby, but functional clothes styles worn by their fathers began to long for elegant fashions.
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Admin16.07.2021

Dating Rituals of the 1950s

When the Pill was introduced, the social factors affecting women's reproductive lives contributed significantly to the warm reception women across the country gave the Pill.
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Admin07.08.2021

Childhood in Postwar America

What were the trends in the 50s? Rock and Roll idols including Elvis Presley, Bill Hayley, Jerry Lee Lewis and film stars James Dean and Marlon Brando set fashions almost unwittingly.
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Admin21.09.2021

A Brief History of Teenagers

I just never realized why, I always taught that it was just because we were the ones who made our parents buy the things.
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Admin10.09.2021

Dating Rituals of the 1950s

5-6 Continue walking forward 2 steps, through a swing move.
Admin01.08.2021

Why did youth culture start in the 1950s?

The outfits were often enlivened with coloured bead belts or jazzy patterned hats, with for example polka dots.
Admin17.08.2021

How Elvis Presley Ushered in the Era of Teen Consumer Culture

The skirts were supported by bouffant paper nylon or net petticoats.
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Admin30.08.2021

Teen Dances of the 1950s

In the past when American teenagers had made money, their earnings, more often than not, had gone to help support their parents or had been saved for one treasured and long-desired purchase, like a baseball glove or a bike, or it had been set aside for college.
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Admin15.09.2021

Why did youth culture start in the 1950s?

Growing up in the 1950s I recall far more young teen men dressed like those in the picture above, than as the 'typical teddy boy look' so often used as an image of the 50s.
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