Sir George, 1958

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Columbia Daily Spectator - 4/16/58

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George Pakradoonian, owner of Sir George.


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Columbia Daily Spectator - 9/21/82

Cramerton Army Stripes, 1958

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The Daily Princetonian - 4/8/58

Camel's Back, 1958

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The New Yorker - 10/25/58

Shortly after the close of the World War, S. Stroock & Co., Inc., in its own laboratories, and with the aid of specialized chemists, skilled textile machinery technicians and intensively drilled workmen, began in its mills at Newburgh-on-Hudson, N.Y., a series of exhaustive experiments with the determination to produce commercially a cloth of 100% pure,  fine camel hair through the exhaustive use of the "noil" and the finest portion of the No. 1 Quality fibre after continuous combing. [. . .] The accomplishment of this task, the development by Stroock of this wholly-new method of processing 100% pure, fine camel hair - the production of a cloth "fit for a king," yet available to all - is today still one of the rare and outstanding achievements of Western World textile manufacturing, and so recognized throughout the length and breadth of Occidental countries.

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The Story of Camel Hair by S. Stroock & Co., 1936

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The Evening News - 11/8/68

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The Evening News - 6/15/85

Summer Hats, 1958

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The New Yorker - 5/10/58

In Bermuda, Jamaica or tennis lengths, 1958

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The New Yorker - 4/19/58

What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?

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Our Raccoon Collar Outercoat, 1958

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The Williams Record - 10/29/58

J. Press imported reversible duffel coats, 1958

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The New Yorker - 10/11/58

Blue Bell, Ivy-style slacks, 1958

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LIFE magazine - 9/1/58

The Poll Winners, 1957-58

1957

1958

Shelly Manne

Barney Kessel

Ray Brown

Editor's note: The cheesy album covers belie the truly good jazz on the vinyl.

Coca-Cola, Bermuda, 1958

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LIFE magazine - 3/24/58

Blue Note 4003, 1958

Seminal hard bop.

Art, 1960 -



Photos by Francis Wolff: Art Blakey at Lee Morgan's Leeway sessions, 04/28/60 via Acoustic Sounds and Mosaic Images.

Robert Novak, 1958

"In this 15 August 1958 photo, Associated Press staff reporter Robert Novak is shown at work as he talks on the telephone in the Senate Press Gallery on Capitol Hill in Washington. D.C."

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Yale, Through the Years

Skull and Bones 1861

Crew, Freshmen, Class of 1907

Crew, 1907

Crew, 1910

[Notice the change in collar style from 1907 to 1910]

Golf team, 1929

1935

1940

1942

Whiffenpoofs, 1949

Debate Association officers, 1949-1950

Pierson College, 1950

1955

Berkeley College, 1957

1958

1962

1962

Amy Solomon, the first woman to register at Yale, 1969


Yale Chauvinist Pig, tie for the 30th reunion of the Class of 1940 in 1970

1971

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Yale University Library - The Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (MADID)

Sacks for Men? 1958

Sacks for Men? They Call Them Ivy-League Look

By Gay Pauley, The United Press

NEW YORK - Turns out the men beat us to the sack silhouette. And now they're going back to shape.

In rounding up the new trends in man's fashions, I asked one stylist if the stronger sex would be crawling into something even faintly comparable to the unfitted line of our sacks and chemises.

"We've had the straight look for years" he said. "We called it Ivy League."

He explained that this spring the fashionable male will look for clothes indentation at the waistline in suit jackets. But the men are joining us gals in another trend - we will wear shorter skirts, they will wear shorter topcoats and suit jackets, said Harold Dessler, of the men's and boy's wear inter-industry council.

In case any of you women plan to shop with husband or boy friend this spring, here are some highlights from the council.

Top suit silhouette: The three-button jacket, with trousers trim and tapered. The jacket this spring has a more cutaway front with flapped pockets and a narrower lapel.

If he's the conservative dressed, he will wear the middle button buttoned; if he's on the dashing side the top two buttons are closed.

Top color for spring is blue.

Grey-Flannel Ousted

"The grey flannel suit has had its hey-day," said the council. It's been replaced not only with the varying shades of blue, but with subtle chalk and pin stripes.

The stripe trend carries over into shirts, although the solid white is the number one seller.

This spring it competes, not with Madison Avenue pink but with television blue and grey.

Matter of fact there's so much white in men's wear in general, the laundry and cleaning people must be all smiles.

Ties are all white or white background with pattern. White shows in wool challis sports shirts, in slacks topped by striped or solid color blazers, or in combination with black, blue and brown in sports coats. Even all white socks are coming back, said the council.

Source - Miami News (Palm Beach Post) - 2/9/58

Straw Boater, 1958

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Vintage Madison Ave.

Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., 1958 (2)

"Raiders of the Schlitzbox"

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plan59.com

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Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., 1958

"Friday Night Schlitzfry"

Say that three times fast.

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plan59.com

Part II coming next Friday.

Bass Weejuns, 1958

What You Will Wear Tomorrow, 1958

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"Within the next few years, predicts Bert Bacharach, a leading authority on men’s fashions, you may see the downfall of the Ivy League style. These slender, natural lines, he believes, are as much an exaggeration as the drape cut. Next step, he says, is moderate padding, a bit of a waistline and some semblance of a blade at the shoulders.

What about the distant future? The wonders will continue, experts claim, and before too many years have elapsed episodes like this one may be commonplace: A fellow is out to dinner with his best girl. While staring into her eyes, his hand trembles and a blob of gravy drops on his pants. He just lets it dry, then reaches into a pocket for an eraser and rubs out the spot!

That evening, the same chap surveys himself in a mirror and decides he’d look better in narrower lapels. No fancy tailoring bills for him. He merely takes out a pair of scissors and snips his lapels to the desired width.

He is wearing paper clothes and they are only one of the long-range miracles of masculine [Continued on page 145] fashion foreseen by authorities. Declares Mr. Bacharach: “The changes to come will be utilitarian, not merely a different look. Everything in apparel runs in cycles. We have now reached the zenith of durability in clothes. A suit has a life expectancy of some eight to 12 years. Soon the corner will be turned and suits will have shorter and shorter lives on the theory that men will welcome a good deal of variety in their wardrobes."

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Mechanix Illustrated, October 1958, via Modern Mechanix blog

(via Ivy Style)