American ivy style

A new book called "Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style" analyzes America's influence on Japanese menswear — and vice versa.

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This look at Dartmouth is lovingly dedicated to Alpha Delta Phi. The inspiration for 1962 graduate Chris Miller's, 'Animal House' and to Uncle Looney. Not only for the heads up, but for not bidding against me. "For the AD Gridders, Truck Bates, Marx, Mick, Stu, Hydrant and Bags. The Puckers: FA Mack, Blinky and Cooky. Pugilism flourished with Sonny, Mumbles, Turnip, Hydrant and Huck Doody. Giving their all for the Big Green were Stu, FA, Magpie, Bags, Jones, Baggaley, Huck, Belly…

Seven Sisters Style documents what was 'in vogue' at the top women's colleges - Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Radcliffe, Vassar, and Wellesle.

Five years before Lisa Birnbach decided to update The Official Preppy Handbook with True Prep, Rosecrans Baldwin and co. of the now elusive Vitals magazine penned an updated version that still holds true today. Editor's note: I'm currently in the process of scanning my favorite magazine clipping that inspired me over the years. Be on the lookout for more posts in the Archives section.

A new take on old-school tailoring.

Maybe it’s because I’m a photographer myself, maybe it’s because I’m from a town and work at a club which he photographed on multiple occasions, or maybe it’s because I, like anyone else, don’t mind looking at glossy pictures of “attractive people in attractive places doing attractive things” (his words, not mine), but I’ve always ...

Today we revisit the sequel to “Take Ivy,” which shows how fast things changed following the fall of the Ivy heyday. * * * The global Ivy Trendwatch continues as a Japanese publisher has re-released “Take 8 Ivy,” photographer Teruyoshi Hayashida’s follow-up to his 1965 tome “Take Ivy.” Sequels are rarely as good as first ...