Ivy Style: Radical Conformists
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300170556 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorPatricia Mears is deputy director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Patricia Mears is deputy director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
The "Ivy League Look," or "Ivy Style," was once a cutting-edge look that for decades led the evolution of menswear. Press for young men at elite East Coast colleges; then from 1945 to the late 1960s, when the staples of Ivy Style—oxford cloth shirts, khaki pants, and penny loafers—were worn by a new, diverse group that included working-class students and jazz musicians; and finally the current revival of the Ivy look that began in the early 1980s.Ivy Style celebrates both high-p
Bad Typography, and uneven editorial contents First, the good news. This is a book with excellent photos of the exhibit. About half of the essays within are worth reading, especially the one on the Duke of Windsor.Now the bad news. For a press of this caliber to screw up so badly with the type design is inexcusableperhaps this was a job shunted off to somebody new on the staff, or to some uncaring soul in China. The typeface makes the book a loser: it is gray (why?) and sans serif (why?) and in a tiny size (why?). This makes the book very hard to read and limits its appeal."Preppy" really may have at one time BEEN pre. "Oh dear. A disappointment." according to Amory B.. I ordered "Ivy Style" with free delivery and, to my surprise, it arrived a day before the estimated delivery date. Superb service. As a follower of the various Ivy blogs, I was much looking forward to settling into a leather armchair in my library, lighting a cigar and spending a few pleasant hours with the book. However, you can't enjoy a book if it's difficult to read the type, and, alas, that's the case with text of "Ivy Style." The body type is so small and light (it looks grey on the page) that I have to strain to read it. The photo captions are even worse; they're so. Jay said Don't buy this book until is is reprinted so that it can be read.. This is the worst-designed book to come out since the first edition of the Gourmet Cookbook with orange type on yellow paper. Simply put, the light blue or gray typeface is simply too light, too thin, and too small for me to be able to do anything but look at the pictures.DO OVER ASAP, IVY. Until then, zero stars if so few were mine to give.