I haven't seen the film adaptation but I wonder if there is any Ivy style in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?

Here's a potentially interesting other question, what's the earliest Ivy style shown on screen I wonder?   Would it be amongst the 1930s gangster films such as 'White Heat' and 'Angels With Dirty Faces' on the authority figures?

The film 'Walk Don't Run' is reputedly heavily Ivy style based being about American's (Cary Grant) at the Tokyo Olympics.  Indeed looking at it on IMDB you can see what looks like Grant in Ivy in a picture of the poster.

What about 'Roman Holiday' from 1954 which has Gregory Peck in Ivy I think and great 1950s Italian style (not Ivy I know but great none the less).

A great late B&W film noir from 1965 with Peck 'Mirage' also had what looked like Ivy clothing (it's sometimes hard to see in B&W films).   Really worth a watch and it is repeated on Sky regularly. 

Nobody has mentioned 'Love Story' of course which is reputedly Ivy dress related but I haven't seen since video in the 1980s.

Barefoot In The Park might be worth checking from 1967.

Internet searches also offer but I can't validate.... Good Will Hunting, Animal House, The Good Shepherd, The Skulls.

To me Animal House personifies Ivy as it was in the late 1950s/early 1960s.  Not everyone was able to afford J Press or Brooks Brothers (oh the shame). Certainly Ivy was worn, but the students inside the fraternity dressed like kids everywhere - comfortable aka slobs.

Metropolitan is interesting in that it was made in 90, and seems to capture the end of an era; all the students wear soft collar shirts, Shetlands, sack jackets, etc (none of a vintage variety, though).  Such items are, I expect, acceptable student wear today at ivy unis, but they're not the norm.  (Indeed, soft collar shirts can hardly even be bought new nowadays, and sack jackets aren't exactly ubiquitous at Brooks etc.)  If the film had been made a few years later, I wonder how ivy-saturated the wardrobe would have been?

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Caines suit was made by Douglas Hayward, I did say small Ivy detail. Patch pockets and single button cuff, which I've been told was "boom year" detail.  I think Doug was a bit of a fan of Italian soft tailoring around this time. So that suit is clearly a mix of international styles, bits from here and there. I'm not aware of any mods that are wearing this lighter canvased look, let alone in a cotton or flax fabric.