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Harvard has entered into a deal with Wearwolf Group to produce Harvard Yard menswear, a line of preppy, plaid-heavy shirts, pants, shorts and jackets that wouldn't look out of place in a Rhode Island Ralph Lauren outlet but might look a bit much on campus in 2009. Field & Stream magazine, meanwhile, has partnered with the Otto Group, an enormous German mail-order and e-commerce company, to create Field & Stream-brand clothes. "Wear Your Passion," Field & Stream's website commands. It contends you can wear its khakis, jackets and shirts everywhere - field, stream or office. (See the Fashion...
...expert Robert E. Bryan, author of American Fashion Menswear, a new book on the history of male dressing. "Except that maybe Harvard gives it more authenticity because that's where the real prepsters go." Authenticity was also the holy grail for Bryan Griggs, who designed the line for the Field & Stream brand and says the clothes were inspired by his travels through Wyoming's Grand Tetons...
Authenticity, of course, sometimes needs to be enhanced by a dollop of artifice. "Eddie Bauer and L.L. Bean do a lot of great things," says Griggs. "But they still sell pants with elastic in them. This is more modern." So while Field & Stream brand has a checked wool shirt, it's cut slim "so you won't end up feeling like a lumberjack." Bryan believes the search for authenticity is echoed elsewhere in the clothing business. "It's foremost a reaction to the frivolous buying spree society has been on for the past few years," he says, noting that other...
...this being the fashion industry, none of these ideas are exactly new. In 1999, 222-year-old Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., licensed its name to an Italian firm, which emblazons it on college-athlete-inspired T-shirts and sweatshirts, complete with fake school crests. National Geographic beat Field & Stream to the punch, launching menswear in 2005. And neither of them is even the most unlikely fashion patron. Kenny Chesney's a designer now, selling his Blue Chair Bay line in three locations in the South...
...amazing to me that one comment out of left field could have such a strong impact on the health-care debate? Because reforming health care is an extremely complex process that involves vast sums of money and influence peddled by huge industries and massive institutions. It seems unlikely or perhaps incorrect that a marginal individual like Wilson could have such a significant impact on the process. But this is the lesson that the Joe Wilson incident teaches us. The outcome of this plan turns on the actions of just a few individuals. Wilson may never be more than a footnote...