Ivy Style, otherwise known as Ivy League, is a style of men’s dress that became mainstream at Ivy League schools during the 1950’s. Students started wearing casual versions of the traditional menswear staples worn by their fathers and started wearing clothing originally designed for recreational activities outside of sports fields. On this week’s episode Joseph and Nathan delineate various Ivy Style staples and talk about several groups that adopted the look: Jews who dressed Ivy in order to blend in in professional environments, female students at the Seven Sisters schools who dressed Ivy in a strikingly masculine way, and Black civil rights activists who dressed Ivy in order to persuade White Americans that they were equals. The boys then round off the episode by critiquing the Ivy League as an institution.

Links:

Ivy League Pinterest Board

The Ivy Style Primer

American Ivy: Chapter 1 - Articles of Interest

Take Ivy by Hayashida, Teruyoshi

The Weird and Glorious Culture Shock of “Take Ivy”

Kiel James Patrick’s Instagram

Man fired for being ‘too American,’ old, wearing khakis: EEOC complaint

Visual snow syndrome grid pattern post

What is Black Ivy, and why you've never heard of it

The Zoomer Question by Isaac Wilks

Air rage triggered by walking past first-class seating, study says

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho

Pete Buttigieg McKinsey tweet

Artwork:

Sunday in the Ivy League from Take Ivy

Recorded on 7/15/2024

This week Joseph and Nathan are joined by Marissa Macias, a local artist and fashion designer who owns the insect-inspired clothing brand Petrichor, to discuss insect aesthetics. They begin by examining 7 of the ~30 extant insect orders: hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps), odonata (dragonflies), coleoptera (beetles), orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets), mantodea (mantids), lepidoptera (butterflies, moths), and heteroptera (true bugs). Amongst other things they discuss Chicago’s recent dual cicada brood emergence, how insects appeared in pre-modern still lives because of their association with death, and how decline in insect biomass could result in systems collapse and a sixth extinction.

Links:

https://www.petrich0r.com/ (online shop)

Petrichor (Instagram)

Marissa’s Neurobasis Kaupi Are.na Channel

Maria Sibylla Merian

The Insect Asylum

Cicada Parade-a

Carravagio’s Basket of Fruit

Durer’s Stag Beetle

Eating Bugs to Save the Planet by Dana Goodyear

The Collapse of Insects By Julia Janicki, Gloria Dickie, Simon Scarr and Jitesh Chowdhury

Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction by Peter Brannen

Ocean Trash Is a Lifesaver for Insects by Daniel Strain

Artwork:

Neurobasis Kaupi by Marissa Macias

Recorded on 7/10/2024

Full episode available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SilentGeneration

Originally started as a Facebook page by three Portland natives, health goth was an online internet aesthetic that proliferated from 2013 to 2015. Health goth imagery and fashion incorporated monochrome color schemes, performance wear brands (particularly Nike, Adidas, and Y-3), chav culture, light weaponry, face masks, and fitness culture. Where did it go, and why has it been erased from public memory to a greater degree than other early Tumblr aesthetics? On this week's episode the boys explore how the aesthetic was later commandeered and mishandled by the controversial former Chicago club kid Johnny Love. Amongst other things they discuss how the aesthetic side of Tumblr often made them feel “Tumblr fatigue,” how local DIY scenes are a recipe for drama and GoFundMe disasters, how goth clean girl looks eerily reminiscent to health goth, and how phonk seems to be health goth music incarnate.

Links:

Health Goth Pinterest Board

Health Goth Facebook Page

healthgoth.com

Cottweiler: 2014 S/S Collection

What Health Goth Actually Means by Adam Harper

Health Goth Fitness Manifesto

#HealthGoth - Hashtags Season II by Red Bull Music Academy

execussion.tumblr.com 2012 by Celestial Youth

Is the Health Goth Movement Selling Out to the Mainstream?

meme about scene rants

famous 2012 basement group photo w/ Johnny Love

Johny Love’s recent health goth facebook post

The DigiFairy’s goth clean girl Instagram reel

Phonk Aesthetics

Artwork:

Jazzelle Zaughnatti wearing a Dead Worldwide shirt

Recorded on 6/30/2024