What Is A Teddy Boy?

 

He is someone who cares about the way he looks. He wears suits that are made to measure, and spends as much time picking out the lining as he does for the suit material. He is growing up in a world that has just had a major war. Adults tell him he should be greatful. He hangs around in bomb sites, he sees queues in shops that have little in them. He is told that the war is over, but he is also told he must join the army for two years. There is still small wars all over. He is just a teenager who in a few years must go and lay down his life, in the mean time he is marked down a thug and a misfit because he does not buy his clothes in 'Weaver to Wearer'

 

 

A 'Ted' was just your average teenager. Throughout history teenagers have rebelled, and said "We can do it better than our parents". It is only when they are given the chance to do it, they realise that they can't,