Yale's 20-Item Dress Study Style Guide
Found the style guide drafted by Yale's dress study group in the translation of Take Ivy (c 1965) and thought of it as the spiritual ancestor to the Basic Bastard, especially compared to the other articles being printed at the time (c 1961).
Me being me, I saw an opportunity to try something out and followed the guide for a month (this was in March but I got sidetracked by fit battle and such). I posted my thoughts on Substack because there's a lot of pictures and Discord formatting sucks lol.
https://imgur.com/a/ozsrUr2
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151630448?source=queue&autoPlay=false
Ultimately there were pros (cohesion, some vagueness in interpretatiom, lack of brands) and the cons (impersonality, some vagueness in interpretation, outdated mores, blind spots in casualwear) which I had to work around. What also struck me was how much this resembles some of the discourse we have now on how to dress. The loose framework feels like the Basic Bastard, while the lecturing tone calls to mind any number of influencers today - whether that's a good thing or not depends on how you feel about this sort of prescriptive dressing.
Me being me, I saw an opportunity to try something out and followed the guide for a month (this was in March but I got sidetracked by fit battle and such). I posted my thoughts on Substack because there's a lot of pictures and Discord formatting sucks lol.
https://imgur.com/a/ozsrUr2
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151630448?source=queue&autoPlay=false
Ultimately there were pros (cohesion, some vagueness in interpretatiom, lack of brands) and the cons (impersonality, some vagueness in interpretation, outdated mores, blind spots in casualwear) which I had to work around. What also struck me was how much this resembles some of the discourse we have now on how to dress. The loose framework feels like the Basic Bastard, while the lecturing tone calls to mind any number of influencers today - whether that's a good thing or not depends on how you feel about this sort of prescriptive dressing.
