What's a teenybobber?

Question

This week is academic spirit week at my high school and tomorrow each class is supposed to dress diffently. My class is supposed to dress like teenybobbers. But the thing is I don't have even the slightest clue what that is. So if you could tell me that would be great!

Answer 1

you mean teenybopper. It refers to the kids in the 50s and has carried over to kids in the 60s and today's kids too. Just check out the movie "Grease". It shows how the kids dressed in high school at the height of the "teenybopper" era. Just find out if this academic spirit week is supposes to represent the 1950s or a later decade and you're all set.

Answer 2

It is actually called teenie-boppers.

I was one. Just dress like they dressed in the early 60s. It was meant to describe a young person who loved to follow the older teenagers and enjoyed life and dressed for fun. The dance, the bop, was also a new dance back then. Thus, teenie, boppers.
There was also a song by "The big Bopper" called Chantilly Lace.
Chantilly lace and a pretty face and a pony tail, hanging down, a wiggle and walk and a giggle and a squawk, makes the world go round..there ain't nothing in the world, like a big eyed girl to make me act so funny, spend my money, make me feel real loose, like a long-necked goose, like a duck. ..Oh, baby, that's what I like." Kinda funny song in the 60s. He died in an accident along with some other favorite singers around that time.
Put on a pair of jeans, roll them to your knees, get a large shirt, (especially from your father), put your hair in a pony tail, and be sure and wear socks with your shoes. Any shoes would be okay. Yep, that's what we did.

Answer 3

Teeny bopper is a term from the '50's for preteens or young teenagers.

Bobby socks (white socks cuffed) and Keds, bobby socks and saddle shoes, button down shirt, "pedal pushers," rolled up jeans, poodle skirts, pony tails.

Try googling teeny bopper or bobby soxer and see if you can get some pics. Or google some of the tv shows from the 50's (Father Knows Best -- "Kitten") or Happy Days (Joanie Cunningham) for more ideas.

Answer 4

I agree with several of the people above with the time period and the age. What it really was referring to was young girls and guys 11-14 years trying to dress older and act older to be like the big girls and boys.
they would flirt with high schoolers/ bands pretending to be older.
it finally became more of a term for a young girl throwing herself at an older man.
however if your school want you to dress like them then go with the 50's and 60's dress style.

Answer 5

Teenyboppers were girls from the 50s who wore checkered blouses with Peter Pan collars, poodle skirts (plain black with a cutout of a poodle on the side) held out with stiff tafetta slips. Little ankle socks and Mary Jane shoes. Hair was in a ponytail and they wore blue eyeshadow and rouge on their cheeks. They chewed gum. (Look at "Grease" for reference.)

Answer 6

If you look at any sort of "young teen" magazine. They are loaded with teeny boppers. Any from the age of 11-13. Girls are obsessed with boys, and boys feel oh so shy around the girls. Remember how you felt when you were that age....

Answer 7

Teens that think they are so cool, and listen to pop music, like the sterotype of nsync, britney, christina used to hold, you know those things marketed at kids done by older people.....just wear a school girl outfit, and some pink nylon stockings and chew buble gumn, oh like clueless the movie....

Answer 8

I always thought it was a slang term for teenagers. Like, "I can't date you, you're a teenybobber."

Perhaps they're teenagers from the fifties? I don't know. When you do find out -- report back here! LOL!

Answer 9

teeny boppers. used to refer to those about 11-13 yrs old. not quite a teen but not a child either. i have to say, i haven't heard that term used in quite a while.

Answer 10

I use this term to refer to kids who are into popular culture, say early adolescents. I wouldn't know how to dress like one. What do your parents say?