{"id":1250,"date":"2013-01-09T19:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T03:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2013-01-09T19:10:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T03:10:05","slug":"menswear-books-teruyoshi-hayashida-et-al-take-ivy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Menswear Books: Teruyoshi Hayashida, et al., Take Ivy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Boy, I want to go to college. Alas, I\u2019ve already gone, and even if I hadn\u2019t, being that I\u2019m nearing thirty years old, \u201cleading a college life in one\u2019s thirties would be way too late.\u201d That observation comes from a no less authoritative a study of university life and style than\u00a0Take Ivy,\u00a0<\/em>but still, we must make certain allowances for temporal and cultural distance. First, the book deals exclusively with life and style at the \u201cIvy League\u201d schools of America\u2019s East Coast. Second, it originally came out in 1965. Third, the men who wrote it, Teruyoshi Hayashida, Shosuke Ishizu, Toshiyuki Kurosu, and Hajime \u201cPaul\u201d Hasegawa, all come from Japan. These may seem like considerable stumbling blocks for many in the market for this sort of book \u2014 I myself actually have more experience with Japan than with anything on the East Coast, let alone with the year 1965 \u2014 but the final product nonetheless raises a burning desire within me to grab my penny loafers, lacrosse stick, and sweatshirt emblazoned with my graduation year and confab with my chums on the quad.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent my high school years picturing myself on the campus of an Ivy League university, where my wealthy roommate Colgate would leave me notes reading, \u2018Meet me on the quad at five,\u2019\u201d wrote David Sedaris. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what a quad was, but I knew that I wanted one desperately.\u201d The quartet of trad enthusiasts who put together\u00a0Take Ivy<\/em>\u00a0presumably felt a similar, if better-informed, quad-related longing. When my time came to file college applications, I couldn\u2019t have told you which schools made up the Ivy league beyond Harvard and Yale, and anyway, articles had reported for years that undergraduate education at those two wasn\u2019t what it used to be. Having grown up on the West Coast cultivating a fear of what I assumed to be the Ivy League\u2019s formidable wealth, daunting application standards, and harsh social judgment, I swallowed that line whole. While\u00a0Take Ivy<\/em>\u2019s candid, idyllic shots of the then-distinctively garbed students of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, and Cornell don\u2019t make me wish I had applied to those schools back in 2002, they do make me wish I had applied to those schools back in 1965.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing at Put This On<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy, I want to go to college. Alas, I\u2019ve already gone, and even if I hadn\u2019t, being that I\u2019m nearing thirty years old, \u201cleading a college life in one\u2019s thirties would be way too late.\u201d That observation comes from a no less authoritative a study of university life and style than\u00a0Take Ivy,\u00a0but still, we must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clothes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}