Editor’s Note: I am right there with you, but Charles Bellinger makes a point. Like almost everything, the 70’s weren’t all bad, and he has made a case here. – JB If aesthetics m...
On the Ivy Style Facebook group, we started a playlist of songs that were Ivy for one reason or another. Click here for the playlist as currently constituted. The reasons varied. The artist d...
As a curtain call to our series of ’70s posts from last week — not to mention yesterday’s post on Yale from Richard Press — Barnaby Conrad III shares these memories of Yale in the decade...
http://www.ivy-style.com/between-ivy-and-prep-bc3-on-yale-in-the-70s.html
Our little run of ’70s-themed posts has been brought to you by St. Johns Bay Rum and its fragrant and practical soap-on-a-rope. For those of you who don’t remember the ’70s, when the item w...
According to the tumblr page where this photo was found, it’s a Ralph Lauren catalog or advertising image dating to 1972. It may be the earliest RL print ad we’ve seen, and I think is notabl...
http://www.ivy-style.com/tennis-anyone-ralph-lauren-1972.html
In the late 1970s, Japanese companies went on a mad spree to secure licenses for American traditional brands. Everyone knows that Onward Kashiyama acquired J. Press, and maybe even that VAN Jacke...
Window shopping is a lot like web surfing: you browse, you gander, you move on. I surfed by The Suit Room the other day; that’s the site maintained by former Ivy Style contributor and Newton St...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as you’ve probably heard before. So when someone posted a picture of Clark’s Wallabees on Ivy Style’s Facebook group, wondering their place in the Ivy/...
http://www.ivy-style.com/the-wallabee-footwear-of-choice-for-70s-preps-southern-frats.html