An example of a change in social class would be that instead of the TV being documentaries and things the higher classes would watch, TV was starting to be influenced by the popular culture and so they started showing Z-cars, soaps like Coronation Street. TV also started to show other accents when people had been used to the posh London upper class accent.
Another difference between classes at this time was the sub cultures. One example of these new cultures were the Teddy boys, who wore long jackets which were Edwardian style, they had long hair and met in cafes and bars where they listened to rock and role music on juke boxes. The Mod’s were another sub. Mod derived from the word modern, this is because they were always trying to keep up with the times. They rode scooters and were part of another trend. There were many clashes between these youth groups as well as many other kinds of sub culture groups. This lead to another reason why people in authority didn’t like the changes in the youth, they could be violent.
The teens now set the trends so unlike in the 1950’s when daughters tried to look like their mothers, in the 1960’s mothers tried to look like their daughters. Designers like Mary Quant who made the old look more daring, colourful and immodest, brought about this new fashion. This created the image of the “swinging sixties”. Mary Quant, she designed clothes, which “allowed people to run, to leap, to retain their precious freedom” Here styles were brighter, more colourful and more daring then anything people had ever know before. A model like Twiggy became fashion icons and idles for many young girls, by modelling Quant’s work.
Vidal Sassoon was one of the most influential hair stylists of the mid 60s. His works include the geometric, the wash-and-wear perm, the bob and the Nancy Kwan. He along with Mary Quant set the trends of the sixties.
This was a huge shock to everyone as members of the establishment went meant to do things like this. It then became know as the Profumo affair.
For the first time in British history there was a “generation gap” created by the teens by rebelling against the establishment and every authorities figure in their lives.
