Bobby soxer (music)
Bobby soxer is a term for the wildly enthusiastic, teenage female fans of 1940s traditional pop music, in particular that of singer Frank Sinatra. Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls in high schools and colleges, who got their name from the popular bobby socks that they wore. As a teenager, actress Shirley Temple played a stereotypical bobby soxer in the film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.
A bobby soxer was not the term for students, both male and female, who were required to remove hard-soled shoes in order to dance on the usual wooden gymnasium floors at a high school "sock hop". Sock hops tended to take place in the rock and roll era.
