![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
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‘Rebel Youth’ published by Rizzoli USA
‘Rebel Youth’, 1950s-1960s, by Karlheinz Weinberger
If you like this, check out:
Notting Hill Gate Tube posters c. 1956-1959
Bablake School, Coventry, 1955-57
The Internet in 1969
First TV Interview with Nelson Mandela, 21st May 1961
Colourful Coffins
The Wilhelm Scream
Designer Gas Masks
Analog Science Fiction Magazine, 1960s
Colour film of VJ Day 1945, Honolulu, Hawaii
Rose Parade, 1954 / 1958
Bell Labs, 1960s
Colourised Postcards of Memphis 'The Cotton Carnival City', 1930s
Colour photographs of children, 1936-1947, by Nickolas Murray
Map of the North Atlantic by Ortelius, 1595
Space Colony Art, 1970s
Colour photographs of Brigitte Bardot, Cannes, 1953
Jean Paul Gaultier 'Elle' Magazine, 1980s
On the set of 'Our Man in Havana', 1959
The Queen in the Army, April 1945 
German Helmets, 1500s
London, 1968
I love the Elvis chastity belt things.
These particular fashions were a Swiss only phenomenon I beleive.
interesting… here’s more:
http://www.moussemagazine.it/blog/?p=9040
Greetings from Basel (and no, people no longer walk around like that in Switzerland…)
Chris
Fantastic…
by the way… I actually had to order the book after seeing this entry. Damn you, Retronaut!
More like codpieces than chastity belts.
Are these kids gay?
And who the heck was ‘Vince?’
Vince Taylor maybe?
Gene Vincent
Wow. This reminds me of some of the homemade “punk” gear my friends and I would come up with, growing up in a little town. No codpiece belt buckles, but lots of stuff with dog chains, magic markered clothes, army surplus belts and boots, toothpaste in our hair to make it spikey. It’s embarassing to remember, of course, but there’s also some pride mixed in. We did it ourselves, there were no Hot Toic stores or whatever to go to. And it’s not like the “normal” kids yelling insults at us from their Firebirds or whatever didn’t also, you know, look like morons.
The guy using nuts and long bolts to close his fly — I hope he didn’t have to go in a big hurry.
Cool photos!!
Beautiful!!!
vince is elvis in Jailhouse Rock