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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