No I haven't classic it does look quite bottom of the barrel but the above example looks a bit more watchable

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/\  cotton can be a killer in the cold and wet for sure, hope you're feeling better now!

...... in the formative '70s half the people were wearing long pointy collars, wide lapels, flares and bells, and crazed Earth shoes, platforms, bowling shoes, just the most insane '70s television stuff, so I chose chambray buttondowns, five-pocket cords, Wallabees and Top-Siders, and the t-shirts, Tretorns, Incontinence pants, and Puma, and sports jerseyys were an antidote to all the disco clothes

which is not to diss disco music, Miami had too much good disco-funk everywhere to deny it, just to say that most kids didn't dress that way at our school with a few notable exceptions

come to think of it some of the aloha shirt guys at our school looked almost like disco kids even though they were surfers and serious water babies as were we all

the dress code only specified shirts with collars so half the kids wore normal Risky Business/Class high-school buttondowns by Gant or Burdine's own label, I liked a certain model of soft Levi's chambray with a small collar the most, half the kids dressed like the early '70s Grateful Dead, half were in a Fast Times/Dazed and Confused bag wearing the loudest Hawaiian shirts they could get, a quarter were wearing polo shirts with the school crest, and a real strange few wore clothes like the polyester-mad David Lindley, and there was also a fairly visible contingent of Stork-like guys, hardcore nerds just like Lewis and Gilbert, while the girls all wore uniform dresses so they wouldn't get into style competitions

in a way the hardcore nerds had the purest Ivy clothes in the mid-to-late '70s and into the '80s, they were still wearing like Hush Puppies

given the choice between Dazed and Confused and Risky Business, what would you choose?  I just mixed the baseball shirts and sneakers aspect of Dazed and Confused with the Top-Siders and jeans of Risky Business (though N!ke Cortez had not appeared quite yet for us '75-'78 in my recollection, I got my first N!kes at the Co-Op when I was a college freshman)  .... we all had pretty long hair though, closer to Randall "Pink" Floyd than to Joel, or in terms of the movie Class, more Jonathan than Skip

but everyone went to some Ivy school or the ilk whether they were cool or whether they were nerds or animals, and most people got haircuts at the end of the summer so that they could show up for college looking somewhat neat and well-groomed, but there were still numerous longhairs in my freshman class, actually throughout the college and grad schools, some of those guys were major preppy Deadheads ... in fact I saw one of them on TV the other week ......

college clothing 90% of the time was cuffed, washed-to-softness Bean khakis, all kinds of t-shirts, and blucher mocs from the Co-Op, with a Levi's blanket-lined trucker for the cold, there was serious competition in some super prep circles to dress down in almost radical workwear chic

however, everybody was capable of cleaning up his or her act sharply when necessary, which back then was when parents showed up and you had to give a command performance or the funds might cease to flow

and if you showed up looking grotty at a Seven Sisters even if it was fine with your girlfriend it would scandalize her roommates and they'd turn on you so you needed to actually do like Otter and wear a decent sweater and sport coat sometimes, and let's not forget that many places wouldn't seat you without a coat and sometimes tie as many of us geezers remember ... we wore the J. Press because it helped us with underage drinking and whatnot as we ran around the city pretending we weren't just 17 or 18 = good times

Nice Stan, how be interesting to know what you wore through the 80s and 90s too

I went into my local JD Sports today enquiring about Sod Hogs - and they threw me out. What is wrong with people nowadays?