The way we wore

Speaking of our fashionable past, "trad" fashion blog IvyStyle recently featured an article about "Princeton style." Bring on the khaki.Put on your blazer, and let us return to the glory days! You know, when we were all WASPy men who wore herringbone--when Brooks Brothers advertised in our yearbook, and when the Princeton uniform was a "contrasting jacket and trousers," not leggings, Uggs and a North Face jacket.The author of the post, Dierdre Clemente, also dug up a page from a 1938 Life magazine article:

"Harvard and Yale men like to say that Princeton undergraduates are the prototype for Hollywood's conception of how the well-dressed college boy should look. The fact of the matter is that tailors and haberdashers watch Princeton students closely, admit they are style leaders, and like all leaders in the men's and women's-wear field, are apt to dress on the flashy side."

The funniest part: there were rules. Enforced by whom, I don't know. Maybe wearing striped ties as an underclassman ruined any hopes of bickering a club. Or nobody would be friends with you in your white flannel pants. Or whatever--something that has to do with our "homogenous campus culture," let's say. But here:

"For the first half of the century, Princeton freshmen and sophomores were banned by tradition from wearing particular garments, such as white flannel pants or striped ties. One had to earn the right to dress like a Princeton man."