MDDT+1950's+teens


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**School Rules ** · Boys hair couldn't touch ears if it did they could be expelledjj | This took away their innocence by taking away their freedom of expression so most many had greaser hair styles · Girls had to wear skirts, and boys weren't allowed to wear blue jeans | This restricted them from being able to wear what they want and made them all the same taking away their freedom of expression **Rock and Roll ** · It was often banned This took away their identity with the new type of music that was their own and being able to do what they want **Dating ** · Parents were afraid of their teens dating because they could do "Heavy Petting" and any talk of sex waas taboo This made it so the kids wouldn't be allowed to date as much and if the parents would try to restrict things taking away their innocence by not letting them have someone to love **The Beat Movement ** · This was a movement in which literary and musical art was emphasized to be anti-conformist This was used for Teens to be able to try to express themselves and be anti-conformist when they couldn't do anything because the parents restricting things **Drive In movies ** · Many teens would go on dates and hang out at the Drive-In theaters but many parents didn't want kids to go to them with their girlfriend or boyfriends This let kids express themselves and hangout, they could see movies that would exemplify there generation of teenagers.

** //Primary Documents // **

//B////OYS// VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS Recommended: **Not Recommended:** //GIRLS// ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS **Recommended:** **Not Recommended:**
 * 1) Shirt and tie or sport shirt and tie
 * 2) Sport shirt with sweater or jacket
 * 3) Standard trousers or khakis; clean and neatly pressed
 * 4) Shoes, clean and polished; white bucks acceptable
 * 1) Dungarees or soiled, unpressed khakis
 * 2) T-shirts, sweat shirts
 * 3) Extreme styles of shoes, including hobnail or "motorcycle boots"
 * 1) Blouses, sweaters, blouse and sweater, jacket with blouse or sweater
 * 2) Skirts, jumpers, suits or conservative dresses
 * 3) Shoes appropriate to the rest of the costume
 * 1) V-neck sweaters without blouse
 * 2) Bermuda shorts, kilts, party-type dresses, slacks of any kind
 * 3) Ornate jewelry
 * 4) T-shirts, sweat shirts

This shows how kids wear very restricted on what they wear to the point that everyone looked the same, you couldn't express yourself, had to conform to be able to be in school, and that the parents and schools would take away things from the kids taking their innocence. Girls would wear skirts and white socks it shows how the teens would have to conform to what was expected of them which took away their innocence because they couldn't do what they wanted to do or what they wanted to wear.
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Citation

Board of Education, Buffalo, New York. "Dress Code for High School Students in New York." 6 November 2011 //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. []? ItemID=WE52&iPin=E14091&SingleRecord=True

"Fashion Trend for Teenage Girls in the 1950s." 17 November 2011 //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. []? ItemID=WE52&iPin=AHI2568&SingleRecord=True

Powers, Richard. "1950s Teenagers." //Social Dance at Stanford//. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. [].

"Beat movement." //Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online//. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <[]>.

Pearson, Lonnye Sue. "Drive-In Movies - 50s / 60s - Lonnye Sue Pearson." //Southern Stories - USADEEPSOUTH Index Page//. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. [].