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#26 2007-11-22 00:55:01
- Horace
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Re: Ralph Lauren: American Dreamer
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#28 2007-11-22 08:41:07
- tripchauncey
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Re: Ralph Lauren: American Dreamer
Ol chums,
As a rank commoner, I know not whether elites wore Ivy. I do know that the USA's "Best and Brightest" wore Ivy. We wanted to look like them.
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/1805515.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=DF96DB48C96E4277EAEDD2B81BB3216DA55A1E4F32AD3138
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKschlesinger.GIF
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKnitze4.jpg
http://www.historical-images.com/robert_kennedy_portrait.jpg
Cheers,
Trip
Last edited by tripchauncey (2007-11-22 08:42:20)
#29 2007-11-22 08:52:51
- tripchauncey
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Re: Ralph Lauren: American Dreamer
Ps ol chums,
Jack and George are correct that anyone could buy and wear the clothes. And they did.
Cheers,
Trip
#32 2007-11-22 13:41:13
- Tony Ventresca
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Re: Ralph Lauren: American Dreamer
I think some of this has been examined on the "Boom Years" thread.
The official Ivy League Look of 55-65 was a mass style.
And probably mostly a marketed fashion style.