[lbo-talk] prescription

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at 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.

Carl