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#1 2010-05-14 13:07:30
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Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
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#2 2010-05-14 13:26:16
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
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#3 2010-05-14 13:42:23
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
Interesting things for later, but you're avoiding the question. :-)
Hint, though: Ralph did Preppy, Ivy and even British things. Question is, how?
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
- Mark Twain
#4 2010-05-14 13:47:41
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#5 2010-05-14 13:47:42
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
As is well known, Ralph turned the style into a fetish object, for worship at the alter of imagined richness that could be bought for the price of a shirt with a little polo-pony logo on it.
As Russell sheds light to, as far removed from real Ivy as sand and vaseline are one of the same.
It feels different, wearing a Ralph OCBD is different than a deadstock BB or even a modern Mercers. The vibe, the essence is not the same.
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#7 2010-05-14 13:50:12
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
- Mark Twain
#8 2010-05-14 13:51:30
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
- Mark Twain
#9 2010-05-14 13:51:57
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#10 2010-05-14 13:54:56
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Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound
#11 2010-05-14 13:56:06
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#13 2010-05-14 14:01:59
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
Was that shirts, or the shit came later?
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#14 2010-05-14 14:02:15
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
- Mark Twain
#15 2010-05-14 14:03:05
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
Whatever, Hepcat - The money came first!
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#17 2010-05-14 14:10:23
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#18 2010-05-14 14:19:29
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
So Quay - You're an Andy Trad & not a real Traditionalist?
- I welcome you as a fellow traveller.
My focus is the Classic American Tradition. All the off-shoots are of interest to me, but I won't swap them for the real deal.
Because the real deal is that rare thing that needs to celebrated & remembered, not Ralph's sweat-shop shonk.
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#19 2010-05-14 14:23:22
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#21 2010-05-14 15:07:25
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
was it...elves?
#22 2010-05-14 16:19:13
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
- Mark Twain
#23 2010-05-14 22:30:36
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
Get on with it Quay, just make it entertaining!
#24 2010-05-14 22:46:49
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Re: Do You Know? A Selective Graduate Course in Ivy Style History
Oh alright, I'll bite again...
"How did Ralph Lauren make that entire lifestyle in a few short years?"
Answer: He didn't.
Now stop being a forum-tease, Q. Make your point & be done with it
... All this foreplay - Cut to the money shot!
#25 2010-05-15 01:27:34
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