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

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'l'HIi Olflflill,-XI. ' PRICPPY YHARBUOR THE THERE-IS-N0-SUCH-THING-AS A-SHORT-SLEEVFL-SHIRT LUCK

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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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