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#101 2015-09-05 17:05:35
- rmpmcdermott
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Re: Ivy 1947-1954
Don't have any photos, but I was talking to a close friend of my girlfriend's family last night about Ivy Style. He was Princeton '55. Didn't get to talk to him for too long, but next time I'm going to try to get some good stories out of him.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin. - Mark Twain
#102 2015-09-11 01:28:09
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#103 2015-09-12 13:55:07
#104 2015-09-12 13:56:51
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Out of 8 jackets pictured, all are 3 button sacks and 6 are 3/2s.
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#105 2015-09-12 17:05:01
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Re: Ivy 1947-1954
Excellent documentation, Yuca. Beautiful clothes.
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#106 2015-09-12 23:56:55
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Although Dave has struggled with being inkeeping with the particular period of time this thread is concerned with, Ive enjoyed his posts.
#107 2015-09-13 04:01:41
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I see the pre boom years decades as essentially one era in terms of ivy, although the 47 to 54 period is historically different in that this was when the conditions for the look leaving campus (i.e. the GI Bill) 1st appeared.
Incidentally the boom years could possibly be subdivided into the classic era, then the more extreme look that came in around 62 onwards, once cuffs went out of fashion (on then later off campus).
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#108 2015-09-13 04:07:35
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I think you can get a clear identity of ivy all the way through the beginning of the 20c..but what is interesting is the look just prior or on the cusp of the boom with the bebop, zoot suit, war period hangover. Then bam we're in with all the GI, campus going cool jazz goodness my fat little heart can take.
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#109 2015-09-13 07:46:57
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Re: Ivy 1947-1954
Wonderful stuff here Y-Man...
Very inspirational - there could be hope for me yet?!?
He came he saw he gave the WANKER SIGN! Moved on from Talk Bollocks now as it's well shite innit and y'all look MINGIN'..
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#111 2015-09-13 14:22:19
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Re: Ivy 1947-1954
just want to point out that the Princeton 1938 guy up there, Hugh Wynne, probably was wearing what he had been wearing at Choate where he was a friend of JFK, who also went to Princeton with Wynne and other pals but left school after he got sick, re-enrolling at Harvard upon his recovery.
so the Princeton 1938 look came from Choate and other prep schools is what I'm saying, and before that a lot of it came from Cambridge and Oxford
which historical origins should not cause anybody to feel better or worse about the style
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#112 2015-10-29 11:55:17
#113 2015-10-29 11:56:20
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Albeit a bit too much shoulder.
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#114 2015-10-29 12:05:18
#115 2015-10-29 12:42:29
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Yeah. I love it Yuca.
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#116 2015-10-29 13:16:08
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me too, I especially love the shirt on the left, it is great not only to see the oxford button-down shirt on display in the '30s but the stripes ....
the Punjab raw silk tie also is a beauty ... reversible topcoat, suitcase, crepe-soled moccasins, foulards .....
we had good style but then we lost it
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#117 2015-11-03 13:12:54
#118 2015-11-03 13:15:43
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Looks absolutely superb. Nice wide lapels, yet somehow the 70s lapels of a similar width just don't do it.
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#119 2015-11-03 13:39:04
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin. - Mark Twain
#120 2015-11-03 15:10:44
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I think I have read elsewhere and/or noticed that the 50s stuff had higher lapels than those in the 70s, which backs that up.
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#121 2015-11-03 19:03:35
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I wouldn't really characterize those as wide.
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#122 2015-11-03 20:01:45
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/\ I would get all over A, B, C and H, I, J.
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#123 2015-11-04 00:32:46
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#124 2015-11-04 00:52:57
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Id say thats in pretty good taste..a touch wider and were in Woody Allen circa 1977