Writing about mods in the Sixties, Nik Cohn, an early and astute observer of British youth culture and style, recounted the story of one Thomas Baines, whose teenage dedication to sartorial exactitude ...

The sixties are back — the mod look is taking over the runway and TikTok alike. Designers like Andrew Gn, Versace, and Courrèges have all recently embraced the rebel vibe on their runways. Meanwhile, ...

From the sharp-suited Soho jazzmen of the 1950s to Bradley Wiggins, Mod is the British style that never seems to grow old. A uniquely British fusion of American, European and Caribbean music and ...

Mods were the product of the post-war baby boom and the mass affluence of the emerging consumer society that went with it. For the first time, as a consequence, the upper classes were no longer the ...

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