Story: Teenagers and youth

Auckland teenagers dressed in the height of 1960s fashion – beehive hairdos, tight jeans and boots – cross a street in central Auckland. Teenagers quickly adopted fashion and hairstyle trends that originated in Britain and the United States. This set them apart as a separate group, distinct from both children and adults. Teenagers' new, highly visible appearance marked them out as adolescent and different.
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Reference: Auckland Weekly News, 1 July 1964
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Carl Walrond, Teenagers and youth – Control and rebellion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27034/young-women-1964 (accessed 17 February 2026).
Story by Carl Walrond, published 22 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.