Rockabilly Style
The term “rockabilly” originated as a means to describe a type of music combining rock ‘n’ roll and hillbilly. Elvis Presley brought it to the mainstream U.S. where the glam and additional attention took away the authenticity of it; so in the 1970s, the movement found a home elsewhere in Europe. As a culture developed around the music, the entire movement slowly started leaking back to the U.S. in the 1990s. Rockabilly is now recognized as a lifestyle, a demeanor, and a fashion statement that mimics the rebellious youth and counterculture of the 1950s: pinup-worthy women clad in pencil skirts, neat pin curls, and accented by red lips, while men sport cuffed jeans, visible tattoos, and pompadours (or slicked-back hairdos). In essence, rockabilly is about reformulating trends to make them into something truly unique in a way of freedom of expression. Today, you are either in it or you are an outsider; you either get it or you don’t, but everyone is accepted. Devoid of commonalities in skin color, nationality, or even appearance: if you enjoy the music, you are rockabilly enough for them.
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