Re: prescription
On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
From: Doug Henwood dhenwood@panix.com
What was I thinking? It’s way too early in the morning. It must
be that the Master class has lost some of its bearings. Why does
the Yale Club have to tell people what to wear? They should
know, shouldn’t they?The master class may be effective at replicating its genetic code,
but it doesn’t seem to have been very good at perpetuating its
dress code. Certainly the archetypal WASP Ivy League look that
dominated the 20th century via suppliers like Brooks Brothers, J.
Press and F. R. Tripler has dwindled to near-museum status. I
would guess that no Yale graduate of the last quarter century has
sought to honor the memory of Dean Acheson, John O’Hara or other
master-class clotheshorse of The American Century.
I can report from a fresh visit to The Yale Club that: 1) the food is
a lot better than WASP food used to be; 2) the Old Blues still dress
like Old Blues, though there was a guy in his 80s listening to an
iPod; 3) younger females wear crisp power suits; 4) boomer and
younger men wear “business casual.”
Woj is wrong - no one really seems to know what the code is for
belonging.
In geographic news, I learned that most Yale alums live in the NY
metro area, with another concentration around Boston, and a lesser
concentration in California. The rest of the country is largely
untouched by the Blue Magic.
Doug