Linkroll: Preppies and Hippies, Canvas Sneakers, Shoe Wardrobe…

July 20, 2012 | By staff

• How preppies lost to hippies: citations from The Ivy League Guidebook, 1969. (ivy-style.com)

• Speaking of Western style trends who better than Japanese to analyze them the best. (heavytweed.blogspot.com)

• Some canvas sneakers suggestions beyond Vans and Converse. I’d suggest Vans and Converse though. (well-spent.com)

• Minimalist sartorialists will like this: the basic seven-shoe wardrobe or better yet six-plus-one. (putthison.com)

• Navy, white and linen are key words to presentable summer dress. (anaffordablewardrobe.blogspot.com)

• Ralph Laruen / Edward Green creation: one-color saddle shoes from calf leather in edwardian antique. (uptowndandy.blogspot.com)

• An interview with William P. Field II of Field English Custom Tailors. (styleforum.net)

• The second reinvention of Belstaff, for better or worse. (dieworkwear.com)

• “Fast Eddie” and his closet: portrait by Rose Callahan. (dandyportraits.blogspot.com)

• First Look: Suitsupply F/W ’12. (menofhabit.com)

• Sartorial education for Average Guy on the topic of “all he never wanted to know about socks”. (dresslikeagrownup.blogspot.com)

• An ode to Levi’s 501. (wax-wane.com)

• And to Jack Purcells while we’re at that. (gq.com)

• One for serious shoe obsessionists or shoemaking aspirants: interview with Masaru Okuyama, a shoemaker from Hong Kong. (claymoor.blogspot.com)

• Time when actors dressed themselves. (drakes-london.tumblr.com)

• On this day 5 years ago: 10 essentials for the 30 something. (mensflair.com)