Mods & Rockers

Mod

The fashion-obsessed and hedonistic cult of the hyper-cool Carnaby Street and Kings Road teens, a mod once stated he would

'go without food to buy clothes'



Mod is a subculture that originated in London, England in the late 1950s and peaked in the early-to-mid 1960s.

Mod has been much misunderstood as a working-class, scooter-riding precursor of skinheads appearing to be a group of working-class dandies but It comes from ‘modernist’, it was to do with modern jazz and middle-class of London’s East End and suburbs.

Identifying symbols such as scooters, amphetamine pills, and music

Pop art-style, and putting their personal signatures on their style

Female mods dressed androgynously whereas the Male mods adopted a smooth, sophisticated

As psychedelic rock and the hippie subculture grew more popular in the United Kingdom, many people drifted away from the mod scene. Eventually transformed into the skinheads. Many of the hard mods lived in the same economically depressed areas of South London.

 Rockers

Kept in place with Brylcreem pomade the rockers nomadic romanticism, violence, anti-authoritarianism created a moral panic.

With the open-face helmet, aviator goggles, and a white silk scarf as was thier defining look.

 

The biker subculture that originated in the United Kingdom during the 1950s.

Riding standard factory-made motorcycles they stripped them down, tuned them up and modified them to appear like racing bikes.

Rockers listened to"screw and smash" music

Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Elvis Presley.

Hanging out in The Ace Cafe, Chelsea Bridge tea stall, with the Ace of Spades, Busy Bee and Johnsons.

Mods and rockers became known for Bank Holiday clashes in the southern English holiday resorts of Clacton, Margate and Brighton.

Part of ritual hatred of Mods and other sub-cultures was based in part on the fact that these people were believed to take drugs

As the rockers developed two groups emerged, one identifying with Marlon Brando's image in The Wild One and with the Hells Angels