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#1 2008-03-04 05:59:46
- Taylor McIntyre
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Just Classic American style...
OK, here's The Odd Couple TV show from 24th December 1971.
One of the 'quiet years' for Classic American style...
Yet here it is as it was then. Everybody sing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gBY7mE2yWg&feature=related
BD. 3/2 roll. Etc.
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#2 2008-03-04 07:20:39
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Just Classic American style...
Jack again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08cXyrDewlQ&feature=related
1982 this time. Post-OPH, but it has no impact here. This is still 'quiet years style'. Jack wears G9s, Button-downs, Sack suits & Herringbone Sack jackets with a swelled edge to the 3/2 roll lapels, flat fronts, classic loafers, Repps, Foulards, an Argyl sleeveless V. neck, etc.
It's hard to see from this title clip, but you get a rough idea of what classic American style was just before the Preppy incarnation of the look really swamped the national consciousness. Watch the series (with caution) & you see more.
This is 'wardrobe' for a TV show just like The Odd Couple stuff above is, but it does show how Classic American style was presented back in those days. THIS was the stuff that portrayed a classic American dresser to a national TV audience back then.
It's the look before 'Preppy'.
Post-'Ivy League' boom, ordinary conservative (small 'c'!) American style.
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#3 2008-03-04 08:50:47
- tripchauncey
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Re: Just Classic American style...
Chum,
1981 Brooks Bros catalogues on AAAT
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80112
Real Classic American Style.
For the Brooks inteligensia, when did the fleece become a logo on pique shirts?
Cheers,
Trip
edited - Sorry chum, did not notice thatyou had posted the link in the Excellent Post thread. Should have known you were on the job. Cheerio
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#4 2008-03-04 08:55:14
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Just Classic American style...
Don't know. That's the shirt that KR wears on the 'Don't Stand Me Down' album sleeve...
I popped that AAAT Brooks thread into the 'Awsome' thread here this morning too. Great stuff.
- That's the world echoed in Quincy although not as hardcore.
Classic American stuff I agree.
#5 2008-03-04 09:08:39
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Just Classic American style...
In mid-80's catalogues onwards you can see the impact of 'Preppy' on Brooks I think, especially by the end of the decade. It took a while to filter through.
All that 'Fun' stuff.
There was a new lighter touch in certain of their offerings. A little playful even.
All a part of the ever-changing style. Classic, but never static.
And that story goes on.
#6 2008-03-04 09:13:18
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Just Classic American style...
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#7 2008-03-04 09:21:38
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Just Classic American style...
Wonder what Tony V. would make of that shoulder line?
Tony R. was vey Anglo influenced in most of his TOC wardrobe I thought. Or Anglo-American.
The clip above has him in a button-down which was rare for him in the series.
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#9 2008-03-04 10:57:19
- Brownshoe
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Re: Just Classic American style...
Ted Bessel sported a spiffy Ivy wardrobe on "That Girl."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b6zMK0w5rU&feature=related