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
 
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John Wayne
 

Gregory Peck

 
 

Fred Astaire

 
 

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

 
 

Errol Flynn

 
 

Buck Jones

 
 

Gary Cooper

 
 
Montgomery Clift

Kirk Douglas

James Dean

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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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