Why Lady-Prep Style Matters

If you're a fan of Teruyoshi Hayashida's seminal preppy-fashion playbook Take Ivy, or Patricia Mears' Ivy Style, you may have found yourself wondering what the ladies were doing while midcentury men were getting natty in Brooks Brothers tweeds, bucks, and beat-up chinos. Well, the answer to that question has finally arrived, in the form of Rebecca C. Tuite's Seven Sisters Style, a beautifully illustrated, intensively researched celebration of the all-American preppy style pioneered by the women ...