The Articles of Interest podcast (affiliated with 99% Invisible, I think) has a good series on Ivy fashion, and covers Take Ivy and the Japanese interest in it

The Articles of Interest podcast (affiliated with 99% Invisible, I think) has a good series on Ivy fashion, and covers Take Ivy and the Japanese interest in it extensively. First of seven episodes of theirs about Ivy: https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/episode/338532f2/american-ivy-chapter-1 https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/episode/338532f2/a... Fussell's Class and (especially) Birnbach et al's The Official Preppy Handbook also treat extensively of the style.