Where: England, Greater London, United Kingdom
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When: 01 January 1969
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Description: Teenagers in London's Carnaby Street.
Date: 1969
Our Catalogue Reference: INF 14/147
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Date: 1969
Our Catalogue Reference: INF 14/147
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Spookydel
John Stephen opened the first boutique in Carnaby Street in 1958, and was soon followed by designers such as Cecil Gee and Mary Quant, who named the Mini skirt after her favourite car! Soho's Marquee club was not far from the street, and it attracted recording artists such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the atea, cementing it as one of the hippest parts of London in the "Swinging Sixties".
Juletty
Cool!
ohsummergirl
cannot be more cool :P from the beigining the british are so fashion :P
addiefreyja
Excellent. :-)
© A£3zσǾσf
nice ^^
plastic destruction
I love it!
Chao From Beijing
the woman in the right corner looks like Pheeb in "Friends"
Alex Jerman Photography
set up or real ?
Shilpot
I'd say this is 1966, not 69...every year of 60s London had a different look and this look would have been old in 1969, so was Carnaby St. by then.
schrislloyd
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Female Amateur Catalog Model, It's Your Style!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
i'mandreza
Hi , i'm brasilian . beautiful aqi :)
icomewhenieatcaponata
+++
cheerful wheel
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Fascination Nostalgia, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
artland
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called artland, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Dennizzen
okk mean ??
even hat
interesting!!
finicky bushes
They are young, but they hardly look like teenagers. More like twenty-something.
fantastic week
lovely
Rickard Nilsson
This is really fantastic!
Laura (':
i really love it!
breakspear
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Being There, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
rhondamarierose73
In 66 I was in 6th grad but still knew then that the styles were great,,,i loved the styles of the 60's even now
Claudio 中桐
Beautiful shot!
B i b i ' s
nice ^^
truthful stop
belle composition et superbes tons, bien joué! =)
Gabriel Duarte
1969 the best year
exclusive trucks
this is awesome :D
ELIZA ™
Great !
iDream_T
very beautiful,l like it very much!
Jorge Addison
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I'd have to agree that this photo looks like it was taken circa 1966 rather than '69; certainly no later than '67. Popular styles changed rapidly in the '60's, so that even a few months after this picture was taken it would have already looked out of date. Particularly true in a cosmopolitan city like London, where they were typically ahead of the styles in the U.S. However, it's a great snapshot of a very colourful and all too brief period in pop culture history.
djuhff
cool!
So Late - Ludivine Sagnier .......nell
love it
Paul_0
i luv 60's, nice image
Mohtaj
Very nice work my dear ...... Excellent.
Shilpot
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/5001630412/
©SMA' [deleted]
Wonderful!! -fav
Stephen Geraghty
FANTABULOUS. Regards, Stephen.
Aristocrats-hat
Superb image! Good work! Please have a peruse of my photostream if you have an opportunity.
flowery channel
vintage,awesome!
yellow-zebra
Is that how London was - WoW.
muriahgorde
I enjoy these photos of old times! Congrats!
Pips-Trip
Agree with everyone else who says this shot is NOT 1969 - look at the guy on the left, he's mid 1960s mod through and through. By the late 60s hair had gone long and shaggy and clothing had psyched out - these people would have looked seriously unfashionable in the late 60s.
Chao From Beijing
Friends Phoebe, Ross, Rachel, Monica ~
Dustyspringlamb
The stripey mini dress style here was worn by Suzy Kendall in the 1967 film 'Up the Junction'. So i'd say '67.
eye eye eye
teenagers??they look 40sh
Russell Barrett
Fantastic
Atelier Madrecita
I really like this photo,and all the coments,and I must to agree ,the year is 67!
Shilpot
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4165474631/in/photostream
VisualTreats
Was this a candid photo? It's an absolutely perfect capture of a moment
Pete Tillman
Wow. Added to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnaby_Street Thanks for posting these!
pikcherman
This picture has three identifiers attached to it: Carnaby Street, teenagers, 1969. Only the first is correct, because it shows Cranks food shop which did exist there. The people are all 20-something and, as many people have said, the year is most likely 1966. It's also clearly posed, a set-up with models, and only represents the "Vogue" end of the scene.