From Coasties to K-Poppers, the US is home to a range of teen subcultures. In the fourth of a series exploring Gen Y and Z tribes, Andrea Graham Richeson examines the Americana – teens looking to mid-century America for their inspiration. Can they bring hand-crafted heritage into the 21st Century?

Sweet iced tea is an American staple, evoking childhood nostalgia and the romance of the Southern states. And Americans are as thirsty as ever for the beverage. But as their tastes expand and evolve, consumption of fine tea grown on home soil is on the rise.

From Victorian moustaches to flat caps, hipsters are notorious for reappropriating the old. Founded in 1913, traditional blue-collar workwear brand L.C King Manufacturing Co has become a firm favourite among trendy New Yorkers too, making chore coats and dungarees for blue-collar workers and hipsters alike. But how has this veteran brand done it?

Few of the clothes New Yorkers wear are actually made in New York, and for department store Barneys, that’s an opportunity. It's now getting behind the city’s push to redevelop local manufacturing with a new capsule collection boasting its 'Made in New York' credentials.