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What is American Style to you?

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this thread is inevitable so ill just get it done, what is american style to you?

better yet is there such thing as american style or is it a combination of some sort, of other styles?
 

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Polo Ralph Lauren and RRL.

End of thread.
 

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Originally Posted by westinghouse
Polo Ralph Lauren and RRL.

End of thread.


w/ jeans.
 

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and:

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FDR

Originally Posted by voxsartoria
I'll start with some childhood photographs because I think the transition from the Gilded Age to the modern is rather startling.

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Early appearence of the Brooks polo (a.k.a., OCBD) shirt:

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1.5 Americans in bows about to kick Hitler's ass:

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Sometimes the bane, but mostly the glory of the West: civilians in charge.

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Norfolk suit:

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...and my favorite:

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J Biddle.

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
So, I saved my favorite Biddle photos, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Biddle's last year of life (1961) with his third wife and children.

I think these give a much better sense of how debonair he was...and I'll end with a somewhat humorous set from the same shoot showing him in another mode which I very much approve.

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Every priority in order:

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Astaire.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria
1963, from a television show known as Alcoa Premiere...also known as Fred Astaire Presents:

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Acheson.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria
Note particularly the appearences of the Brooks Brothers button down collar.

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And finally, one of the best photographs of the Brooks Brothers button down collar as it should be and was:

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Churchill. Yeah, he's ours, in spirit, and we end with Abe Lincoln in Brooks Brothers.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill: atypical shots of the most important half English, half American man in history...in so many ways, a part of the transformation into modernity.

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And the photograph that for me, not from LIFE, that captures him perfectly in a way that the well known tommy gun photograph does not:

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Of course you have permission to publish these photos, right?
 

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Originally Posted by Chargersfan
Of course you have permission to publish these photos, right?

Yes, I asked each guy, but all of them are dead now. More corpses:

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Fred acting asleep

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Lancaster

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Patton

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