Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Ivy Style: Keep natural shoulders and a straight body, never tapered
- Type
- Set in Ivy Style's manner (Leave the button-down collar unstarched so the roll stays), and let Mod's lettering (Pick one mark, a roundel or an arrow, and use only that) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Ivy Style's material (Oxford cloth, flannel, leather soled loafers, muted colors); bring in exactly one thing from Mod (Mohair sheen, slim three button cut, waterproof parka, chromed mirrors).
- Colour
- Build on #eae6de, #6b655c, #1a1815 and admit one accent from #eae6de, #6b655c, #1a1815.
Where they fight
- Ivy Style and Mod share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over.
Caution
- Ivy Style Perfecting the correctness turns it into a uniform, and the ease that came from wearing it loosely disappears.
- Mod Assuming that a roundel and a scooter are enough drops the precision of cut the style actually rests on, leaving a pile of signs.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Ivy Style (Style, 1950s–) and its accent from Mod (Style, late 1950s–1960s). Structural cues: Button-down shirts; 3/2-roll blazers; Loafers; Deliberately relaxed wear. Accent cues, used sparingly: Slim three-button suits; Military parkas; Scooters and mirrors; The target roundel. Composition: Keep natural shoulders and a straight body, never tapered. Type and lettering: Leave the button-down collar unstarched so the roll stays. Let one material quality come from the second style: Mohair sheen, slim three button cut, waterproof parka, chromed mirrors. Mood: Trust, Intimacy, Nostalgia, Exhilaration, Rebellion, Technology. Color: build on #eae6de, #6b655c, #1a1815 with a single accent drawn from #eae6de, #6b655c, #1a1815. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Ivy Style 1950s– / Style / Fashion History
The practical menswear system of America's East Coast universities, whose button-downs and blazers taught a broken-in correctness that reached the world through Japan and became the standard of trad.
- Mod late 1950s–1960s / Style / Subculture Style
Slim Italian suits, scooters and modern jazz made a rebellion carried out through refinement, and completed the marriage of consumerism and youth culture.
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