Ivy Style
アイビー・スタイル / 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.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Button-down shirts
- 3/2-roll blazers
- Loafers
- Deliberately relaxed wear
Best used for
- Showing menswear basics as rules of wearing rather than price points
- Building a range of staples deliberately detached from each year's trends
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Leave the button-down collar unstarched so the roll stays
- Composition
- Keep natural shoulders and a straight body, never tapered
- Material
- Oxford cloth, flannel, leather soled loafers, muted colors
- Caution
- Perfecting the correctness turns it into a uniform, and the ease that came from wearing it loosely disappears.
- Further study
- Take Ivy, 1965 / VAN Jacket and Japanese Ivy / the road to preppy
Related entries
- Mod (モッズ)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Ivy Style and Mod
- Normcore (ノームコア)Shared effects: Intimacy.Compare Ivy Style and Normcore
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