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#1 2018-08-17 12:15:25
- Beestonplace
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Post-Ivy business dress
How did people dress for work after the Hippie revolution? Think IBM in the mid-1970ies. Did "formal" business suits have flared bottoms? I am currently looking at photographic evidence form my country, e.g. leading politicians.
I believe there was a thread, either on this forum or Styleforum. or, god beware, on AAAAAAAAC.
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#2 2018-08-17 12:28:47
- woofboxer
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Re: Post-Ivy business dress
My recollection of English suits in the early seventies was nipped waists, square shoulders, kipper ties, tight trousers with flared legs .... WIIIIIIIIDE lapels.
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#4 2018-08-17 16:32:02
- Berkeley_Breathes
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Re: Post-Ivy business dress
"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin
#5 2018-08-17 23:22:56
- Beestonplace
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Re: Post-Ivy business dress
Wonderful!
Some T&A ties have a strong 70ies vibe to me (and not a "swinging sixties" one, as it is reiterated again and again in various forums).
I would say a 9.5-10cm heavy woven navy blue silk tie, with muted, mid-grey diagonal stripes of varying width, is "my" idea of a conservative 1970ies "establishment" tie, fit for a senior politician or business leader.
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#9 2018-12-10 20:13:22
- Cap! Het!
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Re: Post-Ivy business dress
A godawful era for business dress, but above all else spectacles have never looked, or hopefully will ever look again, as awful as they did then.
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