Been a long time since I looked at any tradly blogs but saw this interesting piece on HTJ this morning about a long gone store in Cambridge that looks like I remember John's store the first time I went in there - all wood and piles of clothes, looked like chaos but John knew where everything was....
http://heavytweed.blogspot.com/2010/04/prep-shop-1978.html
In fact he's been posting a lot of late 70s stuff from magazines, when the clothes were still classic but the people wearing them looked somewhat dorky compared even to the Take Ivy crowd of a decade or so earlier.
Still it's the look as worn here that was my first intro in American clothes, as Russell has said before, mainly American tourists in London (Clark W Griswold again...)
Aye.
The volume and range of stock in the early JS was fantastic.
O'Connell's is still nicely overstocked too from what I've seen... As for the rest - The US needs to make more clothes for people to stock.
Especially proper shirts.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aUE6s--Cm-A/S9GgWWJCMoI/AAAAAAAAEcc/DDOvUYfZVyA/s1600/The+PrepShop_11.jpg
Look at the taper/inseam on those trousers.
edit: on the guy in the sack, not the kids.
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