Take Ivy: A Trip Down Nostalgia Lane

A Japanese photographer traveled to Ivy League schools in the late 1960s to document the American Trad/Ivy League Preppy style of the era. Copies of the book are very hard to come by (a copy was just sold on eBay for $1500), and photos from the book have been circulating the blogosphere like crazy in recent months.Here are photographs from the book that depict Princeton. Take a gander! And pine away for a bygone era. (Except for the whole anti-black/anti-women part…)Click for full-size images.Take Ivy, Front CoverTake Ivy, Inside CoverTake Ivy, Photo 1Take Ivy, Photo 2Take Ivy, Photo 3Take Ivy, Photo 4Take Ivy, Photo 5Take Ivy, Photo 6(image sources: thetrad.blogspot.com & acontinuouslean.com)

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Coincidence? I think not.