Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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TCW? HANIl'1JEN-SYDNEY lslA1.1iI1JOSlZUl'li 111111 CHANGING FASHIC AT HAMPDEN-SYDNEY As the neophyte dresser at Hampden-Sydney is quick to discover, key to the sartorial propriety of the place is the button-down shirt, all-cotton, of course, B2 if you're de rigueur, Polo if you're just a little avant-garde. The button-down at Hampden-Sydney is not a recent fad - few things here are, after all - but is in fact one of the longest verifiable fashion trends around Cshort of our predilection for, say, trousers, which doesn't really county. The first known button-down appears around a natty and forward-looking neck in the 1919 Kaleidoscope, which featured, perhaps not incidentally, an advertisement for Brooks Brothers in its nether pages lotherwise Spangled with notices for the Richmond Cedar Works, Mack's Barber Shop, and the Planters Banky. There is, by the way, cause for controversy here: B2 themselves say the style is a later one than that, they didn't sell them before the thirties. The collars of previous years had been, as it were, up- tight: rather a cross lto bear?1 between Little Lord Fauntle- . iu J 'fi . -'JN fi FT , . 0 1 Il t : 1 ,XX l fl W Mi 1 A , xi El 'X I ' xii .1 1 1 X e x 57 105 T 11 l X -X 15 X 'fo A Q, A 1 L . . y I , 'iii . .Y ' -. Qui 1 x:,r,:L,, Tllli I'I'.Rl'..X'.X'I.ll. lil IiTU.X'-IIUIIQX' 1.1 jail, roy's and the Archbishop of Canterbury's, the kind that came in boxes on separate order from the shirts. lWear- ing shirts sans collar was the sign of the irrepressible macho of the era - viz. Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy - and of the unregenerate worker.1 Let- ting down from these cellu- loid wonders to the new- fangled, not to say dissolutely undisciplined, fly-away collars was no doubt as much a shock to the tightly-channeled psyches of our forebears as flare-leg trousers on pin-stripe suits would be to our own generation: hence, perhaps, the urge, the primum mobile -primtun Ii77lI72Of71.lF, better- of the button-down. Be that as it may, the button-down arrived. to stay, in 1919. Competition was hot and heaw - stubby collars, pins, snap-tabs - but the button-down has weathered them all: collar-pins remain, perhaps, the greatest chal- lenger, but it is a friendly competition. The nattiest dresser on the Hill has, for example, been seen with both devices in use at once, in what psychologists might call an excess of anal retentiveness but which all true preps would instantly recognize and approve as the ultimate defense against the unbut- toned multitude which rages, insensate, just beyond the clipped hedges of our world. Herewith, a few samples from stylish necks through the years. Long may it not wave. A VISUAL PRIMER On the next few pages is a brief guide to telling books by their covers: the looks of prep at Hampden-Sydney. Learn from the masters. 1919 1929 1939 1949 1959 1969 1979 I 1 H. Spessard W. C. Finch T. K. Baldwin B. C. Dameron j. L. Brinkley T. H. Slzomo W. A. Wmburn II V- L ... xy ' N 1 ,-.,. 1 1 fr

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THE OFFICIIAlf PREPPY YEARBOOK sive model of the late lamented wheels. If you've got a girlfriend at Sweet Briar or Hollins, you don't really have to have a car while you're at Hampden- Sydney, because she will lend you hers. 1 Ever tried to count how many cars with Hollins stickers on the rear window are in the Venable parking lot most of the time?J Usually these girls will have one of those expensive economy cars - maybe a Mercedes diesel with Texas tags. Some Harnpden-Sydney students seem to date girls for car privileges alone. And if you can't figure out where to park it, there's always Morton Hall. Even more fun if it's someone else's car! off-campus party. Rear Package Shelf. Books from English Lit 201. Catalog cans. Glove Compartment. ADORNMEN T from Brooks Brothers. directory. Map to Florida H d H d Lacrosse stick and ball. Ten- Ray-Ban Sunglasses. O0 ' Orse' Og' nis racquet cover. Empty beer Side front doors. Monogram in nautical flags. Red pencil stripe just below window, running the length of the car. Rear Windows. Hampden- Sydney decal. Commonwealth Club sticker. Ducks Unlimited decal. U.VA., U.N.C., or Georgia decal Qnever Va. Techy. Roof. Ski rack or kayak rack, alternating between winter and summer. Front Bumper. Wintergreen or Sea Pines sticker. Rear Bumper. I'd rather be in Hampden-Sydney or I'd rather be Sailing stickers. Hampden-Sydney and Mary Baldwin parking stickers. Trailer hitch for Hobie Cat. Body. Mud from last trip to ll PREPSTER'S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY THE HOLY ROLLIN, EMPIRE - the area within a 4-hour driv- ing radius of Hampden- Sydney, tributary to it and parks and ski slopesg beyond its shores, rumors to the con- trary, nothing else exists. See map below. characterized by pleasure THE GREAT ashin to . BEYOND gf! ' I I Mount Vemoln ld C-Ville it 0 Mary Washingfon M B 'n Q 0 ' fig a W1 Q 3 il The Slough of Despond Southern Sem. i Mmm .. fg Sweet Briar Q Q X A Hollins Q- Xl- . Va-Beach RMWC f HAMPDEN- , AQ 1 SYDNEY THE 0 San Francisco . OCEAN f5fjfX l O Chapel r-rin H ' B da THE our or mm' .-I TLANT.-l Hampden-Sydney student

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