Historical breakdown of Ivy Style fashionfrom @brockvignery

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Ivy style is the most rebellious thing you could wear. And I'm here to prove it to you. In the nineteen fifties Ivy League students at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton began wearing clothes that were formerly associated only with the establishment, the universities, the workplace, previous generations, clean suits, pressed shirts, polished oxfords, a perfectly tied tie. But they wore it differently. They wore soft tailoring sack jackets. Instead of formal dress shirts, they wore relaxed oxford button downs. And instead of trying to look perfectly polished, they embraced loafers, chinos, Shetland sweaters, and slightly rumpled collars. But this rebellion wasn't against classic menswear. It was within it. It said, I can dress well without dressing formally. And that to me is what makes Ivy so interesting. It's not simply discarding tradition, but reworking what already works. And eventually, that attitude would reach far beyond the Ivy League, with jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, or actors such as Dustin Hoffman, all embracing the Ivy look. And now we find ourselves on the front lines of a new fight. The men's wear status quo for the last twenty years or so has been slim, low rise, synthetic, unflattering cuts, and uninspiring colors. But we continue to fight on. So if you want to join the fight, the simplest protest you can participate in is loosening up that tie, adding a little bit of texture, and studying the past.