The Greaser boom started in the fifties with films like rebel without a cause with star James Dean and the wild one with Marlon Brandon and Lee Marvin in 1953. Sporting white T-shirts, greased up hair, Jeans and leather jackets, therefore becoming the new trend for rebellious teenagers.
The american Greaser was best known for their love of big hair, hot rods & Rock n’roll. The attitude of the greaser arrived alongside rockabilly hit radios across the nation, when Elvis first hit televisions worldwide the subculture found a new icon with his own style of greased back hair and rock n’roll music. But they also loved the Doo-Wop genre.
While the sleeked back hair style defined the term Greaser it also harks back to their love for hot rod cars and mechanical knowledge. The american greasers often raced their hot rods amongst themselves. all the while British greasers were better known as die hard bikers.
Many Greasers didn’t stray far from their roots. They rocked t-shirts with Bombers, denim or motorcycle jackets, you won’t find a greaser that doesn’t own a weeks worth of straight leg jeans, often cuffed and paired with military boots or converse trainers. Of course not to forget pin-up tattoos, bandannas and cartons of cigarettes stuck in their cuffed denim sleeves.
The look is quite similar to military uniforms. The greaser look purposefully chooses to take on military elements while also rebelling against authority.
While the majority of greaser icons were men, the look was also appropriated by women. Women would rock pencil and poodle skirts with motorcycle jackets as well as rocking the straight legged jean look. The style is better known today as pin-up or a rockabilly look, and occasionally Rosy the Riveter style.
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