Ivy Style, otherwise known as Ivy League, is a style of men’s dress that became mainstream at Ivy League schools during the 1950’s. Students started wearing casual versions of the traditional menswear staples worn by their fathers and started wearing clothing originally designed for recreational activities outside of sports fields. On this week’s episode Joseph and Nathan delineate various Ivy Style staples and talk about several groups that adopted the look:  Jews who dressed Ivy in order to blend in in professional environments, female students at the Seven Sisters schools who dressed Ivy in a strikingly masculine way, and Black civil rights activists who dressed Ivy in order to persuade White Americans that they were equals. The boys then round off the episode by critiquing the Ivy League as an institution. 

Links:

Ivy League Pinterest Board

The Ivy Style Primer

American Ivy: Chapter 1 - Articles of Interest

Take Ivy by Hayashida, Teruyoshi

The Weird and Glorious Culture Shock of “Take Ivy”

Kiel James Patrick’s Instagram

Man fired for being ‘too American,’ old, wearing khakis: EEOC complaint

Visual snow syndrome grid pattern post

What is Black Ivy, and why you've never heard of it

The Zoomer Question by Isaac Wilks

Air rage triggered by walking past first-class seating, study says

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho

Pete Buttigieg McKinsey tweet

Artwork:

Sunday in the Ivy League from Take Ivy

Recorded on 7/15/2024