Where Have All the Preppies Gone? with Avery Trufelman
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Y2K Fashion
In the 1960s, when everything is in fashion, all at the same time, and it's this like confusing retro blur. And so when Ralph Lauren comes out with these preppy clothes, basically what he does is he mixes Hollywood style and Brooks Brothers style. People eat it up. They're like, I'm so sick of all these fashions, all these wild retro fashions. You can slowly see it ramping up all throughout the 70s,. Like in 1974, Ralph Lauren does the costumes for the movie The Great Gatsby. Then you have this rash of movies that take place just before Kennedy was assassinated. Yeah, Laverne and Shirley yeah.
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