Another good classic find from the Life Archive. Good ole Ivy Style was on to these photos as well. More inspirational prep school goodness after the jump.
LIFE Archive | Prep School
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Hotchkiss… the place that didn’t want me.
Wow, how things have changed (unfortunately).
Not all Hotchkiss!!! I’d recognize the old dining hall anywhere. And for the record, some schools have changed far less than others.
Some of the change has been fortunate. Today, “preppy” is a descriptor (or look, if you will) that people of many backgrounds can claim.
I wish my prep school had looked like these and we had all dressed as well as these guys.
“Preppy” was not something you wanted to be when I was in prep-school. Maybe it would have been if this was the style preppy kids were wearing then. Too many layers of popped-collar pastel polos and bottle-opener reefs for me.
I agree. Preppy was a term you did not want to be associated with – even still today, I think.
These photos are amazing, by the way.
Thank you.
Great work unearthing these pictures – fascinating.
This is the exact images that flashed through my head when I read Catcher in the Rye.
Another Country ,entirely.
LIFE archives provide some quality images, props ACL.
Excellent. Someday my dorm room will be the subject of an ACL post.
Lovin’ that second pic. Sometimes I think I just wasn’t made for these times.
As you ogle the style of that time, imagine yourself in one of those rooms.
Everyone is smoking, the air is thick with nicotine. You are wearing a wool sweater and itchy wool pants, silk socks and leather shoes. Your hair is oiled down with Brylcream. If it is summer, there is no air conditioning. If it is winter, the radiator will burn your hands.
Are those MUGSHOTS the wag in the third pic down has tacked to his pennants?
Nickus,
Is that you?
Your Hotchkiss Comrade,
IMW