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#1726 2015-12-28 23:07:10

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

 

#1727 2015-12-29 03:54:27

McGeorge Bundyburger
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

 

#1728 2015-12-30 23:25:18

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

 

#1729 2016-01-05 22:30:41

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

 

#1730 2016-01-05 22:42:40

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Take a look at those Top-Siders... $8.95 calculated for inflation in today's dollars would equal $71.76.

Cushioned insole, rustproof eyelets, classic blue or white canvas- no other colors needed! Quality made-in-America product.

We pay more nowadays for cheap Asian crap.

How depressing.

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#1731 2016-01-06 02:07:42

Chief Brody
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

The guy in the silk golf jacket, that's me…! wink

 

#1732 2016-01-06 02:10:55

Chief Brody
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Nice find, Ollie.

 

#1733 2016-01-06 08:24:14

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Is it me or is there an almost 40s-50s hip retro look going on in some of these styles / illustrations, at least for 1960. Even the drawings seem pretty retro compared to a lot of the stylized illustrations in ads posted above it! Also worth taking note of the demographic that A+F were appealing to in those days... How the mighty have fallen!

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#1734 2016-01-06 08:35:29

Leer R.
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Yep. +1, had the same feeling. smile

 

#1735 2016-01-06 08:58:23

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Adding to eBay search list: Jack Tar cap and boatneck pullover! smile

Btw, I love how those madras & dacron-cotton striped beach shirts are cut to the same proportions as a sport coat; a far cry from the silly looking '60s cabana suits that followed. Look how perfectly they drape alongside that English Henley blazer; proper half-sleeve length and natural waist trunks too. I'd love to find something like that!

Whenever I see these old ads it makes me wonder how we've taken such classic, symmetrical and perfectly formed looks and bastardized them to such extremes?? I mean, men literally do not know how to wear shirts and trousers anymore. They dress worse than infants did decades ago... I don't understand it. How did we take something so flawless and exemplary and completely shred it to the point of it being unrecognizable in current times? We've somehow broken the perfect archetypal mold in the name of modernization and it really sucks. These illustrations should be the classical representation of how men should be dressed; even if styles have moved on, the basic principals of fit should have been etched in stone yet somehow that's been lost with time.

 

#1736 2016-01-06 09:02:20

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Also, has anyone read the description on that MAdisonaire advert??

"the natural choice for the individualistic young man in the halls of learning and the world of business, who wouldn't be caught dead in an overpadded suit, sport coat or top coat"


I motion that we rewrite the constitution to somehow incorporate this sentence!

 

#1737 2016-01-06 09:15:07

Tomiskinky
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Except non of them actually look that young?

 

#1738 2016-01-06 09:18:30

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Well that's for the above ad, not the A+F catalogs which seemed to target a much older demographic, at least compared with the ugly psuedo-trad teenybop college stuff they market nowadays.

 

#1739 2016-01-06 10:12:34

Tomiskinky
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Ah, good point, sorry misread - but even the chap in the ad looks older than me! hahaha

 

#1740 2016-01-06 10:15:42

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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

truly great old Top-Sider page Ollie. ...

Some of these pages need to also get over to the Tropical Ivy thread

The pleated pants and shorts?  make me wonder whether 1960-era Abercrombie & Fitch customers were throwback sticklers insistent on pleats and whether the company was pushing NOS and/or whether the catalogue and/or illustrations actually date from 1960 ....

Because those rich pleats are the antithesis of Ivy.

Yet many other items in the catalogue are timeless things that fit right into Ivy


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#1741 2016-01-25 21:42:17

Oliver
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

 

#1742 2016-03-02 15:27:42

Armchaired
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.


�Careful with that axe Eugene.�

 

#1743 2016-03-02 15:36:01

Worried Man
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Such a classic look.


"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

 

#1744 2016-03-03 04:08:29

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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.


�Careful with that axe Eugene.�

 

#1745 2016-03-03 06:25:58

Bop
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

I found some handloom madras shorts by Corbin on etsy...but the 70 quid price tag has put me off

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#1746 2016-03-03 07:09:03

Armchaired
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.


�Careful with that axe Eugene.�

 

#1747 2016-03-03 11:00:00

Armchaired
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.


�Careful with that axe Eugene.�

 

#1748 2016-03-03 12:30:47

Armchaired
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.


�Careful with that axe Eugene.�

 

#1749 2016-03-03 12:55:16

Worried Man
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.

Such great ads, AC.  Thanks for my viewing pweshure.


"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

 

#1750 2016-03-03 13:44:09

Armchaired
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.


�Careful with that axe Eugene.�

 

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