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The Mop-Top Look

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CHELSEA
The Chelsea boot, a sleek, elastic-sided ankle boot, became so linked with the British Invasion sound that it remains a style shorthand for the whole era.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
NEHRU
The collarless jacket worn by the early Beatles borrowed its clean neckline from the Nehru jacket, named for India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FRINGE
The trademark fringe, known in America as bangs, was cut straight across the forehead and became the single most imitated hairstyle of the 1960s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MOD
The Mod movement that swept London in the early 1960s prized sharp tailoring, bold geometry, and a youthful rejection of the old dress codes, the perfect backdrop for the Invasion look.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About The Mop-Top Look

When four lads from Liverpool stepped off a plane in early 1964, America didn't just hear something new, it saw something new. The pudding-bowl fringe, the slim-cut suit with its collarless Nehru-style jacket, the pointed Chelsea boot: every detail felt deliberate, as if a whole new vocabulary of cool had been invented at once. Tailors on Carnaby Street and the King's Road had been quietly building this look for years, and the screaming crowds on both sides of the Atlantic made it the most photographed silhouette of the decade.

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