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#1 2009-08-04 07:54:40
- ivy girl
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Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/536520/Seven-Sisters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_Smile
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIwNzgzMDAyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTY0NTA3._V1._SX398_SY400_.jpg
Any other fans out there?
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#2 2009-08-04 08:00:19
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
Sylvia Plath style for instance? Lovely photographs of her with Marianne Moore, circa 1950 I think.
#3 2009-08-04 08:00:38
- Moose Maclennan
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#5 2009-08-04 08:06:00
- ivy girl
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7_91IQIF4-c/SQU4mfIMAoI/AAAAAAAAAiA/iFOKp4QX5fU/s400/sylvia_plath.jpg
http://www.arlindo-correia.com/plath3.jpg
http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/gifs/janeandsylvia_1.jpg
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#6 2009-08-04 08:11:18
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
She looked truly lovely, didn't she? Many thanks for sharing these. I've mentioned her from time to time, but I'm not sure that we've ever seen photographs. The female collegiate input should be highly valued. All but a single image I've seen from 'Take Ivy' have been of male students. Good time to redress the balance. Ivy girls must have been abundant, surely!
#7 2009-08-04 08:15:54
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
Not a skinhead girl in Spurs shirt then ?
#9 2009-08-04 09:06:53
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
Great Caesar's ghost! A gal in the Gentlemen's Club. Outrageous, whatever next!
Welcome Ivy Girl. You'll find I'm the charming, handsome and urbane one on this forum.
Does this mean we'll have to wash now?
#10 2009-08-04 10:54:30
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
Welcome here, Ivy Girl!
“No Room For Squares”
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#11 2009-08-04 12:47:59
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
This is fantastically welcome input, ivy girl.
The Seven Sisters Look as a complement to the Ivy League Look?
NOBODY has touched on this so far.
Welcome!
Jim
#13 2009-08-05 03:20:20
- ivy girl
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
From the top
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Bobs_Her_Hair
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/bernice/
#14 2009-08-05 03:48:01
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
A feather cut can be as nice as a bob.
Not sure about the yellow colour or the logo here though :-
http://sevensistersroad.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/apologies-and-new-spurs-kit/
#15 2009-08-05 08:46:36
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
K. What with you and Cheeky Monkey you'll frighten the poor girl off.
#16 2009-08-05 09:50:42
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
I have no intention of frightening her off. She is very welcome.
'Seven sisters' seems like an American version of 'blue stocking' but without any frumpish connotations. Maybe US academics in those days were less misogynistic ?
#17 2009-08-05 10:08:47
- ivy girl
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
I'd doubt it.
The style could easily be made to look frumpy if you just copied the past. The point is to be inspired by what has gone before, not to try to replicate it.
Same for you boys too?
#18 2009-08-05 10:37:17
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
Same for me, but we certainly have our Ivy purists here.
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." -- H.L. Mencken
#19 2009-08-05 10:52:32
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
^ Wars have been fought over that, over here.
For me, the ideal would be looking like you could have fit in back then without looking frumpy today. Most days I don't care about historical authenticity, though. I'm already blessed with tons of authenticity so why should I 
Welcome by the way Becs.
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#20 2009-08-05 13:01:36
- The Thin Repp
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
http://www.etsy.com/shop/NewtonStreetVintage Classic Vintage Ivy League Clothing on Etsy.
#21 2009-08-05 14:12:28
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#23 2009-08-23 15:29:14
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
When I first read this thread, I hadn't heard about the Seven Sisters look... Now, I am reading the Joe Boyd book, and... in chapter 16 Boyd talks about organising a double concert for the Miles Davis Qunintet and the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1966, and how does he describe the black audience?
"dressed in Ivy League clothes - well fitting blazers or tweed jackets from Brooks Brothers, button down shirts with ties, horn rimmed spectacles, narrow grey flannel trousers- they personified a new black confidence. Their hair was short and "nature". The girls behind the stage were wearing the "Seven Sisters" look (the female pendant to Ivy League) with gabardine skirts and ribbons, or big Afro hairdos, giant golden earrings and Dashiki blouses...."
translated back from the German edition of Joe Boyd- White Bicycles. Musik in den 60er Jahren. Kunstmann Verlag (my own translation, so it's probably different from the original text)
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#24 2009-08-24 02:14:34
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Female ivy or the Seven Sisters look
So it did/does exist as a codified, named style out there in the real world? Very interesting.
Ivy League & Seven Sisters - Later mushed together as the 'Preppy' marketing scam of the 80's in a bastardised form.
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#25 2009-08-24 02:17:17
- Moose Maclennan
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