60s era fashion coffee table book

[Mazda]

A friend in San Diego had this great book and the name escapes me but it was essentially a coffee table book by a japanese artist who traveled to Ivy League schools in the mid to late 60s to shoot the fashion.

The really fantastic thing about it, aside from some stunning work, is that the clothing is so absolutely timeless, a large portion of them could have been off the street yesterday. The looks could easily be inserted into WAYWT and no one would catch it.

The book was called "chasing ivy"...."watching ivy" something like that.

Anyone know what the hell I am rambling aboot? where 2 kop?

 

[ctrlaltelite]

Take Ivy: http://acontinuouslean.com/2008/05/19/take-ivy/

 

[robbie]

Originally Posted by Mazda

where 2 kop?


ebay, if you have a couple hundred bucks lying around.

If you google 'yearbooks' or 'annuals' or 'campus papers' basically anything collegiate, your query should return some sites with decent scans of the yearbooks/newspapers from various colleges. I am not sure how much of the Ivy League is represented, but I looked through several University of Oklahoma yearbooks from the 20's up the 70's a while back.

also, local libraries tend to have college yearbooks on hand or microfilms of them too.

 

[Threak]

Wow that does look interesting. Looks like there's one going on ebay right now, but the price is steep.

There's also this thread here with more info & scans.

 

[Mazda]

Originally Posted by ctrlaltelite

Take Ivy: http://acontinuouslean.com/2008/05/19/take-ivy/
+rep that was quick. I don't think I saw the dude dressed like Gilligan. Sounds like the book is fairly rare. He's a photographer and has tons of books but he didn't make it sound like it was some big deal book. Also it's not related but it's been bugging me for weeks and I forgot to mention it: Lolbook...why would humans use animal baby talk similar to "lolcat" speak? The whole joke as it spawned from the original macros on 4chan and SA was that animals as we see them, speak in baby talk/pigeon english. the joke is lost when juxtapozed with humans. I love the idea, it's just....off. The "lolcat/caturday" speech ruins it. Just constructive crit, not trying to be an ass.

 

[Mazda]

Originally Posted by robbie

ebay, if you have a couple hundred bucks lying around.

If you google 'yearbooks' or 'annuals' or 'campus papers' basically anything collegiate, your query should return some sites with decent scans of the yearbooks/newspapers from various colleges. I am not sure how much of the Ivy League is represented, but I looked through several University of Oklahoma yearbooks a while back.


Was the "******/hick/bag of dicks" aesthetic in place back then? [/UT alum]

 

[robbie]

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[ctrlaltelite]

Originally Posted by Mazda

the joke is lost when juxtapozed with humans.

since when were hipsters human?

 

[Mazda]

Originally Posted by robbie

sorry... uhh, what?

I don't speak idiot, i mean texan.

My apologies, should I roll my message into a husk and mail it hoping it doesn't get lost traversing the dusty wasteland between us?

 

[Mazda]

Originally Posted by ctrlaltelite

since when were hipsters human?

Touche.

 

[robbie]

mazda: texas is full of texans it isn't cool, as a matter of fact its awful. If all of the texans in texas ceased to exist texas might be a decent place... but texas is full of texans

 

[embowafa]

LOL @ OU/UT smack talk

FWIW, Boomer...

 

[Mazda]

Originally Posted by robbie

mazda: texas is full of texans it isn't cool, as a matter of fact its awful. If all of the texans in texas ceased to exist texas might be a decent place... but texas is full of assholes,idiots,and former presidents therefore making it only slightly more interesting than say Alabama and Mississippi.


Well Texas is the Reason...


and I expected much better.

 

[robbie]

texas is the reason for what?

 

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by robbie

texas is the reason for what?
for the name of an emo band