Stilyagi
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Stilyagi were members of a Soviet youth counterculture movement from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. A stilyaga was primarily distinguished by snappy clothing—preferably foreign-label clothing a
A Ukrainian anti-stilyagi poster on display in a window in the Soviet Union, c. 1950s-1970s
Hipster (1940s subculture)
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The terms hipster or hepcat, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jump blues and jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s and later into the 1950s being associate
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…corresponding to those of the Beat Generation. English writings on Soviet culture variously translated the term as "dandies", "fashionistas", "beatniks", "hipsters", or "zoot suiters". 1950s youth fashion Bikini boys, a similar subculture in Poland Hep cat, another Western counterpart to the Stilyagi Jampec…
Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill, in front of Minton's Playhouse in New York City, wearing zoot suits