Featured image from the series Mad Mods and a Camera, © Duncan James.
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Some 60 years ago the headlines were outraged with their takes of groups of youths clashing on the beaches of Clacton, Brighton and Margate. Two sides were throwing the deck-chairs – Rockers, all studs, leather jackets and Brylcreem; and Mods, all parkas, gingham and loafers – divided by their adherence to a look and a lifestyle. They were style tribes, at war.
Indeed, they were just two tribes that, since the invention of the teenager,