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Before there were Hippies, there were Beatniks. Beatniks were followers of the Beat Generation - influential poets and authors through the ...

Beatnik, the style created from rebellion of the customary for its time. Originating in the late 1940s, early 1950s, this style sprouted from a conservative period of time with the intention of rejecting mainstream fashion. This style includes dark shades, mainly black/gray, form fitting clothes, a turtleneck or two. The key is effortless.

From cropped pants to striped tops and berets, we break down exactly what a "Beatnik" is and the style they left behind.

Not every member of the Beat Generation wore a beret by Kali Pappas, First published for the September/October 2014 issue of Finery As any fan of the Beat Generation writers will tell you, there’s a chasmic difference between the beret-wearing, bongo-beating “beatnik” of popular imagination and the people who created and lived the Beat philosophy in the 1940s, 50s, and […]

The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I've been collecting photos on the internet, as well as submissions from readers who rifled through their attics to help me compile more preserved moments of historical sass! Found in Good Housekeeping, June 1952 Found he

“Shadows” of the Beat. Be Cool Daddio, you got to dig the beat, go with the flow. Every generation has its subcultures. Currently, in 2012, one can point to the followers of Electronic Music Festiv…

“I was for a very long time passionately in love with her, as I’m sure she’s guessed. Every male in the world, and a number of females also were, and we all still are.” R…