20 years ago i was wearing jeans and tee shirts and sneakers (i was 4 years old)  so....10 years ago i was wearing jeans, generic black work boots, athletic undershirts and hoodies, though i dont remember calling them hoodies or wife-beaters then.  i think i like trad or ivy clothing because it makes me feel like an adult not a kid anymore.  ive kept the undershirts, but replaced the jeans with khakis and the hoodies with oxford cloth button downs.

1988 - The same. Maybe still more Brooks in those days than Press. What we called 'Ivy League' style. 'Preppy' didn't feature for us.

1978 - The English version of a Hitler Youth uniform bought by me Mum for the first 6 months of that year and then I discoved Jazz that Summer & started to change. A knit tie from Burtons up North was probably my first Ivy influenced purchase - They came in sets of two, one Silver Grey & one Burgundy. I gave the Grey one to a chum unworn. Then came a really bad Blue poplin Van Heusen BD. I had to mix & match what I had with what I wanted for quite a few years back then...

I also remember wearing a coat in the late 70's It had a loud plaid with a mock fur/wooly lining around the waist, at the top of the pockets, a thin strip across the yoke and all of the collar. On one side of the collar there were two straps and on the other side 2 D-rings. I can't think what these coats were called. Lumberjack rings a bell. I'm sure I recall seeing skin heads wearing them...but my memory is a bit hazy...

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I had my first fag that year too...

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1988 --  Levis 501s, khakis, RLP polo shirts, OCBDs, shaggy shetland sweaters, Harris tweed jackets, doeskin blue blazers,  etc.

1978 -- Levis 501s, khakis, Lacoste polo shirts, OCBDs, shaggy shetland sweaters, Harris tweed jackets, doeskin blue blazers,  etc.

The one very noticeable lapse in my satorial judgement involves the DJ I rented for my senior prom.  Now I'd been brought up to believe that only a white DJ or the traditional black were the only acceptable dress for formal events.

However...  The '70s being the '70s, I made quite an unfortunate choice; I also let my girlfriend influence that choice.  I ended up with the usual ill-fitting DJ that characterizes most young men's prom outfit, but in a groovy CHAMPAGNE color (read: tan) with extremely napped trouser stripes and jacket lapels in a contrasting chocolate brown.  I have since blocked out the shoes, but it's because something tells me they were high-shine white patent. Even worse, there still exists in my mother's house photographic evidence of this sin.

Yeh, laugh away.  It did match my date's dress nicely -- especially when the cops shone the flashlight thru my rear window at about 1am.  Both dress and DJ were in a pile on the floorboard, and my date and I in another pile on the back seat.

Bloody good thread -Moose

20 years ago- At uni - 501`s later changed to 505`s ( just prefered the fit)- checked shirts - wool v and crew neck sweaters- often a rugby shirt - either timberland lugged soled 3 eylet deck type shoes in burgundy or yellow 8 hole timberland boots- still had my ex RAF double breasted great coat for cold dry weather or Barbour for wet.

30 years ago -Like uncle - at prep school - white shirt-grey shorts -vneck jumper tie blazer and slip on black shoes -in the evening we were allowed to dress in our mufti gear -so it would have been whatever my mother had packed in the trunk much off course depending on the season-
winter  a rugbyshirt and tracksuit  both Bukta

summer -shorts and t-shirt

I still remember a winter term where my mother forgot to pack some plimsols to wear with my tracksuit and I had to wear my black school slip ons until the first exiat weekend- it scarred me I tell you - young boys can be so cruel with their jibes- my family were accused of being too poor to afford both shoes and plimsols.

Forgot to mention the school cap - which we had to wear whilst walking outside at all times during the school day- if you curved the peak and tucked the cap it to your vneck sweater with the peak upwards - covering your nose and mouth - you could pretend to be a WWII fighter ace- we had one boy who had to wear leg callipers and specially adapted shoes - he was Douglas Barder,

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No you are quite correct I meant Bader.