Take Ivy

Photography by Teruyoshi Hayashida. Text by Shosuke Ishizu, Toshiyuki Kurosu and Hajime Hasegawa. Translated by Miho Ayabe. First English language edition; 8th printing. 142pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher’s original cloth boards with black titles to spine and coats of arms of all 8 Ivy League universities to upper board. *** A near fine copy of this fashion classic, originally published in Japan in 1965. A highly influential collection of photographs documenting how students at America’s Ivy League universities dressed and lived in the early 1960s, which helped fuel the Japanese fascination with Americana and prep style.