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I do recall that many of them did sing 'Shang-a-lang' as they, er, ran.

Too warm to wear it, and if you tied it round your waist (as some did) it made you look like a ****. Apart from wearing it as a hat or shoving it up your arse, or setting it on fire, there wasn't much option.

Compared with what was going on in the alternative music scene, this lot look like they were dressed by their mum.

Correct. I think youth trend, as a monoculture, died out in around 1973. At that time things split into different looks, some being hobbies and some tribes. I'm of a pre-fashion era. Ted mod and skin in the 50s and 60s were not 'fashions' at their core but lifestyles. As was, later, punk. None...