What Is the Ivy Style of the 20th Century?

In the 1920s, students at Oxford had already shed their stiff, sable row suits and were instead opting for more comfy clothes like loose slacks and turtlenecks. A high neck jumper was the only way in which a respectable young man could get away with not wearing a tie. The other thing too that they pioneered which was immensely looked down upon was not wearing a hat. On the surface this just seemed like a lost generation of young people enthusiastically hurtling themselves at hedonism. But fashion is always political and there was something under it. It's more than just somebody saying, oh I want to wear flamboyant clothes. All this partying was happening directly