I remember bodgies very well in my hometown. As kids we were scared of them. Their girlfriends were called widgies and dressed in tight black stretch pants, boots and oversized black jumpers. Their make up was pale with heavy black eyeliner and mascara and often their hair was dyed black. Like an old fashioned Goth really. The boys tried to look like Elvis Presley and the girls like Priscilla Presley. Most acted really tough and would cruise the streets on their big motorbikes. They hated the Beatles.

From Wikipedia: The males were called Bodgies and the females were called Widgies. Bodgies were well-known for their often loutish behaviour. On February 1, 1951 the Sydney Morning Herald wrote on its front page: What with "bodgies" growing their hair long and getting around in satin shirts, and "weegies" cutting their hair short and wearing jeans, confusion seems to be arising about the sex of some Australian adolescents.[ the term "bodgie" arose around the Darlinghurst area in Sydney. It was just after the end of World War II and rationing had caused a flourishing black market in American-made cloth. "People used to try and pass off inferior cloth as American-made when in fact it was not: so it was called bodgie"... "When some of the young guys started talking with American accents to big-note themselves they were called bodgies"