I Like the Cut of Your Jib, Sir. | Vintage Menswear Illustrations

  “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”  –Gore Vidal   ~*~      

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The Legacy of Ralph Lauren | Polo University

  “People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.”   –Ralph Lauren ~*~      

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Formally Speaking | What a Gentleman Knows About Dressing with Style

  “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”  –Oscar Wilde   ~*~            

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Crimes Against Tartan | Punishable by Death

  “Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.”  –Woody Allen   In this case, I have to agree.   ~*~      

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Short Pattern of Excellence | 1953

  “Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, shorts and Windsor knots were considered by some to foreshadow the end of Empire.”  –Angus McGill   ~*~                

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James Coburn | 70′s Style Animal

  “Personality.  Gotta have some kind of personality and you don’t wear your personality on your body.  It’s gotta come from someplace.”   –James Coburn ~*~      

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Smokin’ Style | A Hollywood Retrospective

  “If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer”  –Clement Freud   ~*~   John Wayne   Gregory Peck     Fred Astaire     Douglas Fairbanks Jr.     Errol Flynn     Buck Jones     Gary Cooper     Montgomery Clift [...]

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Spring Has Sprung | Vintage GQ Gets Their Color On.

  “Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?” –George Gobel   ~*~    

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Vintage Valley of the Dolls | Best Dressed

  Our little friend has a better wardrobe than most people I know– and they’re in the business. Go ahead– throw on that Duffle coat and plaid cap, buddy.   ~*~

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Harvard Grads 1971 | A Plum Job

  “Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”  –Frank Lloyd Wright   ~*~  

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