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Now Men Everywhere Can Dress Like Harvard Elitists

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Posted on Aug 6, 2009
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Really, Harvard University? Harvard Yard fashions as showcased in New York magazine.

Now, everyone knows that even the toniest of Ivy League institutions recently suffered substantial blows to their massive endowment funds, but Harvard University’s idea to launch a menswear line called Harvard Yard just seems like school branding gone horribly awry. That, and their preppy sport coats go for $495 a pop, making Harvard once again tailor-made for the trust-fund set.

New York Magazine’s “The Cut”:


Something fishy seems to be going on at Harvard: The university is trying to be hip, possibly even chic. How else to explain Harvard’s cameo on this week’s episode of NYC Prep? And its new men’s fashion line, Harvard Yard? And by fashion line, we don’t mean maroon sweatshirts with crests on them. The university has inked a ten-year licensing deal with clothing manufacturer Wearwolf Group for a line of contemporary men’s apparel. It’s unclear if the line is part of the university’s attempt to stop bleeding money.

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By hippie4ever, August 13, 2009 at 3:12 pm Link to this comment

Is leg shaving mandatory?

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By RootJensen, August 11, 2009 at 6:27 am Link to this comment

The guy just looks gay, no offence to anyone there at all,
But seriously, which guy would really wear those shoes?
I’m not even going to have a go at this article, just laughs my loafers off lol

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By christian96, August 10, 2009 at 7:41 pm Link to this comment

Inherit the Wind—-I couldn’t have said it better.
It’s sad when you think what Harvard use to be. Now,
it’s become a playground for rich people’s brats.
Don’t for “You reap what you sow!”

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By Inherit The Wind, August 10, 2009 at 1:52 pm Link to this comment

christian96, August 10 at 4:20 pm #

Harvard Business School!  Isn’t that were men and
women have been trained to rape and pillage the
people and enviornments around the world all in the
name of their god, BUSINESS?  Werewolf Group!  Can’t
think of a better name for something related to
Harvard!  I wonder if Kathy Griffin is on their
board of directors?  I also wonder how they got the
publicity stint on Truthdig?  You don’t think Truthdig could possibly be getting a kickback from
Werewolf?  I don’t know how I ever got on this site
to begin with.  Probably because of the word “truth.”  Boy, did I ever get “digged.”

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ROFLMAO!

And when the Harvard MBAs get caught or sued they hire their brethren from Harvard Law to defend them!

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By christian96, August 10, 2009 at 1:20 pm Link to this comment

Harvard Business School!  Isn’t that were men and
women have been trained to rape and pillage the
people and enviornments around the world all in the
name of their god, BUSINESS?  Werewolf Group!  Can’t
think of a better name for something related to
Harvard!  I wonder if Kathy Griffin is on their
board of directors?  I also wonder how they got the
publicity stint on Truthdig?  You don’t think Truthdig could possibly be getting a kickback from
Werewolf?  I don’t know how I ever got on this site
to begin with.  Probably because of the word “truth.”  Boy, did I ever get “digged.”

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By BlueBerry Pick'n, August 10, 2009 at 11:43 am Link to this comment

AN EXCELLENT REASON TO START DECONSTRUCTING THE HARVARD LOGO

& turning it into an re-considered underground logo of dissent

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By ongre11, August 10, 2009 at 10:48 am Link to this comment

Anyone who falls for this is a sucker.

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By ApprxAm, August 9, 2009 at 4:21 pm Link to this comment

Cambridge Casual: Handcuffs.


Why?

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By Virginia777, August 9, 2009 at 1:15 pm Link to this comment

This line is going to be wildly successful - I wish they’d go public, the stock would be a fantastic investment. (not that I buy stock, but if I did)

Why didn’t they think of this earlier? Before they just dumped preppy neocons on us, now they have Branded themselves.

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By Inherit The Wind, August 9, 2009 at 12:52 pm Link to this comment

Hey, I’m qualified—I’ve been to Harvard—or close to it as I drove past….

My bubble has been burst…Here, all along, I thought Harvard students didn’t NEED to be taught to wash their hands—they arrived knowing it.

And I thought Dartmouth students also arrived knowing well enough not to piss on their fingers.

THIS is what they are learning in the Ivy League????—and they make fun of big State U’s where the students learn how to throw keg parties and drink till they puke?

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By Frank, August 9, 2009 at 6:31 am Link to this comment

Dark brown loafers instead of boat shoes or sneakers?

Sleeves rolled up, but neatly and below the elbow?

PLAID jacket with shorts? Shorts ABOVE the knees?

Toolbag oufits, all of them.

Most definately NOT Magnificent Bastards

http://www.magnificentbastard.com/

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By hippie4ever, August 7, 2009 at 11:00 pm Link to this comment

OMG, I wouldn’t be caught dead in any of those clothes. Harvard must be clueless regarding its strengths, which are many, but it’s hardly the University of Milan.

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By godistwaddle, August 7, 2009 at 3:52 am Link to this comment

This Dartmouth graduate sneers at and mocks Harvard “style.” 

At a Harvard-Dartmouth game, I took a leak.  As I turned away, the guy at the next urinal said, “At Hahvahd, they teach us to wash our hands after urinating.”  I replied, “At Dartmouth, they teach us not to piss on our hands.”

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By thebeerdoctor, August 7, 2009 at 3:17 am Link to this comment

Wearwolf Group? Seersucker shorts? Are those called smarty pants?

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By Sepharad, August 6, 2009 at 11:36 pm Link to this comment

This has to be the first furtive fashion article on Truthdig: gratifying to know fashion idiocy is as endemic among men as women. Gotta show this to my husband, who has four pairs of everyday synthetic/nylon toast-colored pants suitable for riding horses in rugged terrain, one pair of same pants that are waterproof, and one pair of dark-brownish tweed year-round pants for anywhere he can’t get away with his horse pants. He has a dozen synthetic/nylon Travelsmith type shirts in tan, reddish, blues and olives. Has three jackets of various weight and function to wear over these clothes, 1 sweater, no ties, 1 pair of boots, 1 pair of brown leather shoes, 1 pair of running shoes, 1 pair running shorts, 1 cowboy hat, 1 rain hat, 1 beret, 2 mufflers I gave him that he wears when it’s cold. 5’11”, 155lbs., wildly curly black-whitish hair, main accessories a guitar, a couple of books, nameless watch, sardonic grin. Always looks great (but not like he went to Harvard).

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By P. T., August 6, 2009 at 10:34 pm Link to this comment

I wonder what makes Harvard think that people want to look like its students.  When I was young, the stereotype of those kids was that they were kind of geeky looking.

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By LostHills, August 6, 2009 at 10:32 pm Link to this comment

I’m sellin’ all my socks on ebay, tomorrow…..

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By Outraged, August 6, 2009 at 9:58 pm Link to this comment

Quote: “The line includes “short-sleeve plaid shirts, Liberty print wovens, seersucker shorts, regimental stripes, sporty knits, patterned jackets and fancy pants — all in a contemporary, tapered fit,” according to WWD.”

Seersucker shorts…..lol.  I promise the first time I see a guy wearing seersucker shorts I’m not going to lmao.  I promise.

These “seersucker shorts” wouldn’t by any chance happen to be plaid…. would they?  Because if they are, I simply cannot keep my promise.

I sense that this is what the term “educated idiot” was invented for and is illustrative of.  Seersucker….. lol.

So… I have a question.  Are the “fancy pants” and the “seersucker shorts” coordinated separates with the “Liberty print wovens”, the “regimental stripes” and the “patterned jackets”?  And in this vein, are the “regimental stripes” indicated as referring to the “patterned jacket” or the “seersucker shorts”?  Of course, maybe “regimental stripes” refers to the “Liberty print wovens…?

It’s simply fustrating…. now what, this simply blows my whole wardrobe all to hell, it’s so difficult to keep abreast of these incredibly important issues…...alas…..alas, I despair.

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