Mass Hysteria at Brooks Bros.

[Senator Jack]

They really need to send a large wagon over to the BB corporate offices. People need to be collected and their heads examined. Perhaps after a long rest they can be a useful part of society again.

Good Lord! Are those palm trees?

With any luck, this couple will rot in hell - right along with the designer of that outfit.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Ah, yes ... the preppy look.

Here in the U.S.A., it was first "revived" in the later '70s within the gay community. Then came the movie Animal House, Lisa Birnbach's The Complete Preppy Handbook, the election of Ronald Reagan ...

The funny thing is, the preppy look never went away in other countries. Upper-class men and women in India, Brazil, South Africa, France, Honduras, etc. still go around wearing polo shirts with logos, and penny loafers without socks.


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[Baron Kurtz]

Ah, yes ... the preppy look.

Here in the U.S.A., it was first "revived" in the late '70s within the gay community. Then came the movie Animal House, Lisa Birnbach's The Complete Preppy Handbook, the election of Ronald Reagan ...

The funny thing is, the preppy look never went away in other countries. Upper-class men and women in India, Brazil, South Africa, France, Honduras, etc. still go around wearing polo shirts with logos, and penny loafers without socks.


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Ahh, but do they leave their trousers under a birds nest for a day before wearing them?

The dame doesn't look half bad, but the guy! I mean, "summer classics"? Those shorts are abysmal. The abortions from the seconds waste-basket. And the belt It should be lined up against a wall and shot.

I'm with Jack - with the whole rot in hell thing.

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Good Lord! Are those palm trees?

Looks to me like you can choose, at least between palm trees, understated sailing boats or, this year's most common design - spotted by Apparel Arts at Palm Beach from June until early August - yes, you got it ... the fiddler crab. Classy.

bk

 

[The Wolf]

Animal House is right

I think that is Greg Marmalard and Mandy in the second picture.
The Omega house continues.

The Wolf

 

[Senator Jack]

You know that chick's going to take off with a biker the first chance she gets.

 

[herringbonekid]

i can't believe the second image isn't from a 1986 catalogue.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Someone tell me what they charge for these things. Do i really want to know?

Brooks Brothers is at the best of times one of the most overpriced garbage bags that i've ever visited. They must be overcharging for this rubbish.

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

i can't believe the second image isn't from a 1986 catalogue.

80s are in at the moment i believe. And 80s fashions get described as "classics". Oh my, i'm going to vomit if i see those shorts again.

bk

 

[Senator Jack]

Were the preppies wearing the blazer with shorts, though? From my high school days, I don't seem to recall seeing that nonsense while I was beating them up.


Trousers - $90
Shorts - $60
Belt - $48 (?!)


Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[Brad Bowers]

I was confused for a minute. I had scrolled down only enough to see the coat in the first photo, and I thought, "That's not too bad, I wonder what the fuss is all about?" And then I scrolled some more and saw the pants...:eusa_doh:

Brad

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Were the preppies wearing the blazer with shorts, though?

They were in The Complete Preppy Handbook (1980). Makes grown men look like English schoolboys, doesn't it? All that's missing is the flannel cap.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Never did understand that. It's warm enough that one needs to wear shorts. Just leaving the house ... whoops, best not forget my jacket!

bk

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Brrr

Look forward to next year's "Miami Vintage" line: Badly tailored low-buttoned jackets with neon pink T-shirt.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Never did understand that. It's warm enough that one needs to wear shorts. Just leaving the house ... whoops, best not forget my jacket!

In the early '40s, there was a very short-lived fad for sleeveless sportcoats.

 

[Zach R.]

Now come on, you're doing a disservice to all polo shirts comparing them to these travesties.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Hey, at least Brooks Brothers has the pedigree to be selling this stuff. The company practically invented the preppy dress ethic in the 1900s.
Preppy authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson wore 3-button sack suits and buttondown shirts in their Ivy League days -- back in 1914.

 

[BellyTank]

Now come on, you're doing a disservice to all polo shirts comparing them to these travesties.

Zach- you misspelled transvestites...

B
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[Zach R.]

Zach- you misspelled transvestites...

B
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I guess I didn't look close enough at the catalog.:eusa_doh:

 

[Baron Kurtz]

He was speaking francaise

bk