@KR: If you don't get the mind set of this forum at all, maybe add to it a dash of Norman Mailer, a litre of Colin McInnes and, at least, a pinch of salt...
Chances are you still won't get it, but don't blame me...
the hipster ideology....
...according to the gospel of Norman:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18996537/Norman-Mailer-the-White-Negro-Dissent-Fall-1957
and some stuff about the style of the scene (the American Look at CG) and the youth cult fashions (it's also about Teds) before Ivy League and the Italian Look became hip in the UK:
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/uploads/docs/Horn%20chapter%2 05.pdf
Check the Cecil Gee drawing of the "American Look" in the early 1950s...
from this thread:
http://forums.filmnoirbuff.com/viewtopic.php?id=6137
I'll also check some links to interviews with Jeffrey Krueger, Steve Barrow and Jeff Dexter...
I like all this !
I think Hank's been overdoing the caffeine today...