“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” —Gore Vidal
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Archive for March, 2009
I Like the Cut of Your Jib, Sir. | Vintage Menswear Illustrations
Posted in American, Apparel Arts, fashion, history, style, vintage, tagged Apparel Arts, Esquire, fashion, Illustrations, menswear, vintage on March 29, 2009|
The Legacy of Ralph Lauren | Polo University
Posted in American, apparel, designers, fashion, history, Icons, Preppy, tagged design, DNR, fashion, Jeffrey Banks, menswear, Polo, Ralph Lauren on March 26, 2009| 4 Comments »
“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
Posted in American, apparel, British, fashion, history, vintage, tagged design, fashion, illustration, menswear, rules, vintage on March 25, 2009| 1 Comment »
“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
Posted in American, apparel, British, fashion, history, tartan, vintage, tagged design, fashion, menswear, tartan on March 25, 2009| 4 Comments »
“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
Posted in American, apparel, British, fashion, history, LIFE archive, Preppy, tartan, vintage, tagged design, fashion, menswear on March 23, 2009| 4 Comments »
“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
Posted in American, fashion, films, Icons, vintage, tagged fashion, Hollywood, James Coburn, legend, movie on March 23, 2009| 3 Comments »
“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
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2009| 1 Comment »
“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
Spring Has Sprung | Vintage GQ Gets Their Color On.
Posted in American, apparel, fashion, history, vintage, tagged design, fashion, GQ, menswear on March 20, 2009| 1 Comment »
“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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GQ-- November, 1968.
Vintage Valley of the Dolls | Best Dressed
Posted in American, apparel, Art, fashion, history, Preppy, vintage, tagged Art, design, fashion, menswear on March 20, 2009|
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
Posted in American, fashion, history, LIFE archive, vintage, tagged 1971, graduate, Harvard, student on March 18, 2009|
“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.” –Frank Lloyd Wright
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