Teddy Boy waistcoat
Unknown maker · mid 1950s
Photo: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Unknown maker
This label brings together clothing whose makers are not identified in the cited museum records. It is a cataloguing description, rather than the name of a designer or fashion house.
Archive pieces, grouped by date
2 pieces1950s
2 pieces · Season not recorded
Teddy boys on a corner, Southam Street
Unknown maker · 6 May 1956 (photograph)
Photo: Photograph by Roger Mayne; image courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Street-style photograph
About Unknown maker
The V&A’s mid-1950s Teddy Boy waistcoat is explicitly attributed to an unknown maker; Roger Mayne’s contemporary photographs record the people wearing the style without identifying who made their clothes.