The avant-gardes sartorially speaking…
The year is 1964 and the men, from left to right, are: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg. SaveSave SaveSave
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The year is 1964 and the men, from left to right, are: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg. SaveSave SaveSave
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The Graduate (1967) is one of my favorite movies and possibly my favorite film of the 1960s. In the last 20 minutes of the film, the protagonist, Benjamin Braddock, wears an eggshell white hooded windbreaker (see above) as he races up and down California to win over Elaine, the daughter of the wife (Mrs. Robinson)
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Fifty years after the event, Life recently released previously unpublished photos of John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration. While JFK may not liked wearing hats, he did wear the traditional top hat on the day of his inauguration. JFK wearing top hat JFK in morning dress w/cashmere stripes trousers JFK standing in morning coat JFK in
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Season four of the award-winning AMC series Mad Men picks up again tonight. As part of the ramp-up to the season premiere, the New York Times has assembled a 1964 menswear report and asked Ed McCabe, a former advertising exec, to answer reader questions about being an ad man in the heyday. Enjoy the episode
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As I noted in my piece on Japanese repro-authenticity, the Japanese are experts in spotting a good thing and refining it again and again. And they’ve done it again. Take Ivy, the 1965 photo essay of Ivy League style, is being republished again after years of being out of print. But this time the book
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It appears the team at Allen-Edmonds has scanned and posted their old Allen-Edmonds catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s through the present day. Whether it’s public service or ingenious marketing, it’s a great resource. I came across more than a few models and lasts that ought to be resurrected. The 1957 catalog shows a pair of
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I came across Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) late one night and missed the first half hour or so, which was a pity. Don’t miss it if you are a student of 1960s design and style or a fan of the lanky and accomplished James Coburn. He’s a smoother, more rugged version of Jimmy
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What does the marriage of the American men’s clothing retailer Brooks Brothers and the Emmy Award winning series Mad Men yield? For skeptical readers, probably not much. However, it is not a stretch to find here a measure of fitting synergy. Men’s clothing, esp. traditional business formal wear, is sustained by little more than habit
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