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The modern-day Teddy Boys still rock ’n’ rolling in style
From Ilkeston, a furniture maker; pictured left, alongside fellow Teddy Boy Joe MurphyMy dad was an original Ted from the ’50s. When I was 15 he took me to Jack Higginbotham’s, the tailor in Ilkeston, to buy my first drape, and I’ve been living in a drape ever since.I’ve got 14 now, all styled on the original drapes from the ’50s. The pockets, the position of the buttons, the trouser leg with a split and a button on the side: there’s all these little things that a Ted would see but the general public wouldn’t.