I know, why be backward when you can be progressive? I don't hate the future nor do I dislike the present either. I think the new decade is and will look good, but sometimes I'm feel so nostalgic about a time that I've never lived. The 60s fascinate me (the 50s also), and the preppy style of this era really is at its best. I think this style can never be outdated. Above the knees shorts (though not shorts shorts) and loafers (sans socks!) should be a uniform. Oxford shirts, varsity cotton sweatshirt, flannel plaid suit jackets, yellow rain coats; wow, I'm speechless. I often neglect how American style truly represent an iconography of fashion. It's casual, it's laidback, yet it has flare and refiness. Although I can only speak about it from a perspective of 2010 person who sees the 60s as exactly this. I may be biased and miseducated about that era, but I rather have that set of mind and not doubt my own ideals than be exposed to whatever is called "the truth", I don't know, you tell me.
Regardless, awsome pictures of Ivy League college students photographed by Japanese style photographer Hayashida from all over the Northeastern area of the U.S.A. in the 1960s. I know, Ivy League is overrated in 2010, but still I want in. I still want to enter the gates of overpriced, unfair and biased private higher education institutions to indulge myself in pretentious learnings of the Liberal Arts and Humanities for no ultimate purpose, but to be a connoisseur of whatever connoisseurship I may acquire. But I digress, I need one of those yellow rain coats, stats.
Pictures courtesy of A Continuous Lean
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