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The Ivy League has been used to sell a lot of things, not just clothes.  Old School was kind enough to send me this:     Postum is interesting stuff.  Or was, you don’t see it around anymor...

http://www.ivy-style.com/postum-partem.html

Editor’s Note:  The Featured Image is from a 1910’s Brooks catalog. If you are not a member of the Facebook Group, and you participate in social media, you are really missing something. We s...

http://www.ivy-style.com/double-breasted-blazers-are-ivy-if-you-do-them-right.html

I don’t get why the white buck is not the second thing you buy if you are building an Ivy wardrobe.  First of course is the WOCBD.   But as you are walking out of the store, or back in your h...

http://www.ivy-style.com/the-buck-starts-here.html

Editor’s Note: We are very pleased to present the second in a series of columns by G. Bruce Boyer on music (jazz mostly) and fashion. We have also put together another playlist for you to corre...

http://www.ivy-style.com/jazz-goes-to-college-jazz-and-ivy-style-at-mid-century.html

  Editor’s Note:  In the Facebook Group, we are treated to fantastic articles by the only purveyor we allow to advertise to the group, James Taylor of Waterhollow Tweed. He recently gave us p...

http://www.ivy-style.com/ivy-notes-s1-e4-g-bruce-boyer-corrects-me-a-brief-history-of-abercrombie-fitch-and-the-great-alpacuna-debate.html

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...

http://www.ivy-style.com/the-ivy-style-playlist-update.html

One summer day in 1946, Joseph Haspel, Sr. walked neck deep into the Atlantic Ocean wearing one of his family’s seersucker suits. He emerged from the ocean a part of clothing lore. Haspel was a...

http://www.ivy-style.com/bathing-suit-joseph-haspel-goes-swimming-in-seersucker-1946.html

Years ago Tradsville personality “AldenPyle” started a thread at Ask Andy that included the above ad, which ran in the Yale Daily News in 1941. The ad touches on several themes we explored i...

http://www.ivy-style.com/macys-knows-its-yale-1941.html