In answer to the debate that was raging between RS and Beatnik, Jack Kerouac did attend the Ivy League university Columbia on a football scholarship in 1940, but was he an Ivy League stylist?

Well, he dropped out of Columbia and never graduated. On the day of graduation he waited outside the hallowed academic halls, dressed in casual work clothes, whilst the fellow students graduated in all their finery.   

He took refuge in New York, served in the Merchant Marine and digged the nascent bebop scene, he became pals with Dizzy and Bird. Dizzy composed a bebop tune in honour of this strange holy Benzedrine inspired goof.

There is very little reference to his clothes in the biographies. Burroughs use to boast that Kerouac sold millions of blue jeans through his literature.  In Barry Miles biography he mentions that Kerouac purchased a Brooks Brothers suit before his appearance on The Steve Allen Show back in 1959. This was his one and only suit until his death less than ten years later.

His was an American style, and all that was within it, as Ivy League as jazz, as holy as this railroad earth and as non-Ivy as the clothing of a Mexican immigrant:

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