Buying a car in the 1950s was prohibitively expensive so many young people, anxious to get themselves onto a set of wheels, choose motor cycles which, while not cheap, were more suited to the pockets of the emerging young generation.
And, just as today, young people gathered after work to socialise and so large groups of leather-clad motor bikers began to appear in city centres and around shopping areas. They also, and this was to bring them to the attention of the newspapers, went in droves to many of the UK’s seaside resorts for a day out. Inevitability, such large gathering attracted both attention and also trouble and the media began to cast the newly emerged Rockers, as they became known, as trouble makers.
They were called Rockers because of the early rock groups that they followed like Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry and, of course, Elvis Presley.
The 1960s was a time of experimentation for faces, the early years simply using variations on post-war makeup themes but the late 50s and particularly the mid-60s saw a breaking away from tradition and what amounted to a revolution in the art of makeup.
This was very much a return to the 18th century sandwiched in between the neat and stylish hairstyles of the 1950s and the bitty, anything-will-do hippy styles later in the decade. 
Talk about the 1960s and people say – there was a revolution in fashion, wasn’t there? In fact, compared to the decades that had gone before, it was more a bombshell than a revolution!