Ralph Lauren Was Onto Something

Finding Americana in Tokyo, plus Inspo via Old Stone Trade, Attersee, and vintage ads.

Before heading to Japan, I was already clued into the fact that the Japanese have their own unique relationship with America’s preppy fashion. There’s Take Ivy, the 1965 photo book published in Japan that’s brimming with pictures of Ivy League fashion. And there’s Japan’s obsession with perfecting American clothing traditions that were all but extinct b…