1. The teddy boys

2. The story of the teddy boys
All began in the early 1950's in England. Some teenagers gangs appeared in the East End of London; they were called the Cosh boys. It was very easy to recognise them. They wore very special clothes : long jacket with velvet collar and drain-pipe trousers like under the reign of Edward VII , bright ankle socks and slim Jim tie.

3. These Cosh boys terrified the English society : razor attacks, fights between gangs but also against the police, robberies

4. And when came Rock'n'Roll, it was immediately adopted by the young generation and of course by the Teds. Bill Haley, Elvis, Buddy Holly and others became the teenagers' idols. 
Some Teddyboys had fascist tendencies and were involved with gangs of youths that attacked the West Indians that emigrated to Britain in the mid Fifties. This racism was the most unfortunate of the Teddyboy's tendencies and it closed off much American Rock and Roll to them

5. The teddy boys were the first of the rebellious working-class youth cults.