在1940年代中期,闪耀的明星之一当代歌手的星座烧了一个洞通过少女的耳朵,他们年轻心。弗兰克·西纳特拉的声带可以顺利出发了骚乱在那些日子里,当他在纽约的派拉蒙剧院1944年10月,数百名警察镇压了30000的青少年球迷等待“声音”[来源:佩利中心]。女孩们去gaga在弗兰基被统称为“少女”指的是白色,折叠起来他们穿短袜。虽然在当代媒体刻板乏味的现在,少女对美国青少年文化定下了基调,完全与名流崇拜趋势一致性和超然的成年人。
十七岁杂志的1944年9月推出担任正式承认,少女已经成为自己的消费者团体——和有价值的。二战重振美国经济,工业生产摇松大萧条的蜘蛛网,把更多的钱放在每个人的口袋里。青少年受益于经济繁荣时期,获得津贴,他们花在看电影,在汽水商店和去音乐会看到他们最喜欢的伴舞乐队指挥和歌手。认识到支出和引领潮流的力量,这个新认识的挥舞,十七岁杂志及其广告主同时开始理解这个羽翼未丰的人口和模具的口味。
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秀兰·邓波儿作为一个很好的例子,当她主演的完美的少女1947“学士和少女。”Outfitted in bobby socks, saddle shoes and poodle skirts and spitting out slang of the time, such as "jeepers," Temple epitomized the headstrong adolescence of mid-century teenagers. Swooning for leading man Cary Grant as passionately and fervently as a 15-year-old girl at the Paramount Theater might have reacted to Sinatra, Temple's role offers a slightly satirized view of the upper middle class world of the bobby-soxer, who had money in her pocket to spend where she pleased and new advertising and mass media chaperones to oversee her developing consumer choices. For as much as the history of bobby-soxers is about the lives of teen girls in World War II-era America, it's also a story of how popular culture and advertising permeated that peer group for the first time.
