Credit: J Press (I saw this photo hanging on the wall of the J Press store in Washington D.C. I procured it from a gent's blog named Manligheter)
When one thinks of the phrase "Ivy League", the thought of the traditional Ivy League store cannot be far behind. And, when one thinks of the traditional Ivy League store, one must think of the halls of J Press.
Sadly, the Ivy League store that we all lust for is nothing more than a fading memory. Even though the mighty J Press still maintains a stuffy persona, it doesn't cater to Ivy League students anymore. Truthfully, the Ivy League we talk about has not existed for many years. Ivy League schools have been overrun by foreigners and the sweat pant wearing crowd. I dare say that any of the Ivy League schools are the least bit preppy with only Princeton being the exception.
Yes, if only students wore jackets and ties to class, and if only the world which we try to create via the Internet really existed.
11 comments:
If only the pedigree you try to create for yourself via the internet really existed.
Having grown up & gone to school in Southern California, West Coast schools know nothing of prep fashion. After having prep culture inculcated to me through the years, I only finally fully appreciated it & realized an actual mindset & wardrobe for myself rather late in life -in my 30's.
Only in reminiscing, do I wish I would have picked it up earlier while in school. Or, preferably, been in an academic environment that promoted such dress.
Prep dressing on campus, indeed, truly harkens back to an era much more romantic when men were men, and women were women.
I would like to think, though, that I now make up for in enthusiasm what I lacked in early nurturing by finding every occasion that I can to dress properly, especially when out with a young lady.
Thank you for your this website and for your nostalgic post.
Yes, Princeton is still cool according to Ari Samsky.
http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/weird-fetishes-and-deconstruction-await-you-dear-reader
Thanks, Richard, for the superb photo, but also for bringing up a very serious issue:
"As with recent columns, this one will further the argument that the America system is not broken; it is being very deliberately manipulated to dispossess whites of the country they built.
An obvious place to start is with Harvard University, which sits at the pinnacle of American higher education. The vast underrepresentation of non-Jewish whites in student body and among faculty is representative of what has happened throughout much of America and presages what America will increasingly look like in the future.
A decade ago, when the likelihood that an African American would be sitting in the Oval Office was still more of a joke than a serious consideration, Harvard’s revealing racial breakdown made the news in an unpredictable way. Ron Unz, the California businessman who successfully led that state’s initiative to abolish bilingual education, wrote a candid editorial that appeared in the Wall Street Journal."
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Connelly-Harvard.html
http://www.onenation.org/1198/111698b.html
"Foreigners," eh? You've been hanging out with Admiral Cod, I see. How are the Klan rallies these days?
Richard wrote: "Ivy League schools have been overrun by foreigners and the sweat pant wearing crowd..."
The Native Americans probably had the same sentiment, albeit without the same snobbery and pretensious overtones, when they saw the white man taking over their land.
The green coated kid in that photo looks like an extra from "Making the Grade."
Your usage of the word 'persona' is incorrect....
As an aside....you do not seem to comment on other Blogs....like the ones you list in your roll...curious...
As expected, some namby pamby has to make something out of nothing again! The use of the word foreigner is not intended to be racist or to imply that whites are better than others. It is simply being used to describe the fact that most of the foreigners attending these schools could care less about preppy style. So, give your mommy her panties back and stop crying.
Anon 12:41 is out of line. It's just clothes based on a certain era. Nobody needs permission to wear them!
Richard - I suggest you read David Riesman's "The Lonely Crowd", a seminal work of American social psychology that set the country abuzz in the late 1940's with its profound definition of three proimnent mentaliity/presonality types - Traditional (aborignal not Preppy) Inner Directed (True WASP) and Other Directed - those who will say, do, wear, eat, drinkk travel and do anyhing - natural or unnatural to gain social recognition.
Best examples of Inner Oriented people would be the late U.S. Senators Claiborne Pell, Daniel Moynihan. former US Senator and Federal Judge James Buckley and his more renown brother William F. Buckley, the late Elliott Richardson et al.
Best examples of other oriented people within your "paradigm of style" likely include Ralph Lauren nee Lifshitz, virtually every hedge fund manager and litany of blockbuster Hollywood stars and muscians who never set foot in a classroom of an elite university (with a valid ID) who think they know how to solve all the problems of the world but lack the cognitive skills and know how to do so.
Which Ivy League school did you attend? When you were a student there was it still common to wear a tie to class, or were you the only one?
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