‘Vintage’ Category
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Alison Schneider: Sometimes Clothes Make the Professor
0June 17, 2016 by Ville Raivio
Frumpy or Chic? Tweed or Kente? Sometimes Clothes Make the Professor published in The Chronicle of Higher Education 23.1.1998 “There …
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A history of popover shirts
0February 26, 2016 by Ville Raivio
In historical light, we are living an age of a young shirt type. The current one has buttons from the neck down …
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Shell cordovan leather in 1880s shoes
0July 20, 2015 by Ville Raivio
Shell cordovan, the darling bud of 21st century high-end shoemaking, was a well-known piece of ass back in 1880s already. …
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James Laver and Men’s Fashions In Technicolor, 1952
0July 11, 2015 by Ville Raivio
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Yale University’s 20-Article Ivy League Dress Code from 1965
2June 24, 2015 by Ville Raivio
As published in Take Ivy, the American style bible, the following image shares the views of the Yale dress study …
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