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#576 2008-05-02 00:12:58
- Horace
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
The last is capital, ol' chum. Some nice Chipp and Dobbs hats. What's the mag?
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#577 2008-05-02 01:27:13
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
^ +1.
Inspiring stuff.
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#580 2008-05-07 08:35:00
- Suitedbooted2000
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
Great Stuff Tony, Cheers
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#583 2008-05-07 09:03:03
- Get Smart
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
The shorts-white socks-loafer look is keen!! 
#584 2008-05-07 09:54:39
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
The pics are all you need.
Top, Tony. Top.
J.
#585 2008-05-07 11:18:47
- Coolidge
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
I really want some striped white socks like that. Love em.
Also great suit and straw hat combination further up.
#586 2008-05-07 11:23:37
- Horace
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
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#588 2008-05-07 12:22:41
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
So good it hurts.
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#590 2008-05-07 19:26:03
- tripchauncey
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
Chums,
Observances from ol TVs 1958 top pics.
No 3/2 in 1958. No big knarly roll OCBDs. No baggy pants.
The Curriculum commenced after 1958 me thinks, eh?
Cheerio.
#591 2008-05-07 22:32:10
- Coolidge
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
From what I have seen (and suspect I see even in some of the most recent pics where it's not quite clear) 3/2 was used a lot then, but not pronounced to the extent it is on modern Brooks and Press stuff...as in the roll was not the entire buttonhole, but only part of it, or even just a small fraction of it. My Rosenberg from that era is a half-buttonhole roll, Henry Miller only a quarter button--unbuttoned it looks like the grey suit in the straw hat with multicolored band picture I already mentioned. Buttoned you can't see the top one as well but it's neither truly rolled under nor wholly "unrolled."
I thought the pronounced 3/2 was originally a Brooks trademark...and whence, for better or for worse, the justification for The Curriculum.
In total agreement w/regard to the pants.
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#592 2008-05-08 00:14:18
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
I was unaware that the 3/2 was a Brooks "trademark," if indeed it was or is, but surely most of the American/Canadian offerings today that are in the 3/2 style have adopted it, no?
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
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#594 2008-05-08 01:32:53
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
Only a PS - But if we are talking about AAAT's Trad then The Curriculum does stand up. AAAT Trad as a distinct subset of Traditional American style can have it's own rules with perfect validity. It's only when the rules of AAAT Trad are applied to the rest of the Classic/Traditional American look that they fall down. For AAAT they are perfectly sound.
And this seems to be the consensus we are arriving at now: AAAT stands on its own. AAAT Trad is AAAT Trad, not WASP, Ivy League, Preppy, NeoPrep. AAAT is an updated take on the old American style. It draws on Ivy League & Preppy, but it is not them.
It's not the first time this POV has been put forward I know, but it does seem to be the POV which most people can now agree on.
This is a bit rough on my behalf but it comes from Longwing's blog:
http://www.longsufferingtrad.com/?p=75
http://www.longsufferingtrad.com/?p=77
J.
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#598 2008-05-08 10:11:48
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
^ We absolutely agree and I suspect we always have.
To take "The Curriculum" beyond the walls of AAAT I'd also say that in the round it represents a style that was 'heavily used' too.
My only beef with it all was that I saw a generalisation being presented as stone cold sartorial fact when it came to 'The American Look'.
... But that was only back in the days when AAAT was presented as being the gospel on the Traditional American style. These days we all know more and (I hope) also enjoy more all the grey areas of our style too.
Learning curves, eh?
But at least we all learn from them.
J.
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#600 2008-05-09 09:19:06
- Coolidge
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Re: The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years.
^ Is that a male sweater set on the right? Or a bathing suit?