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WAY BACK IN AUGUST, AROUND THE TIME that tea baggers took screaming to town-hall christian louboutin across America, a small group of concerned citizens gathered in a Web forum to brew some fresh hell of their own. Harvard University had just announced a licensing deal for a line of casual men's wear called Harvard Yard, based, the brand's creative director said, on "an Ivy League tradition that has ... become current again." The clothes -- slim-fit madras jackets, seersucker pants, trim chino shorts -- were pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a clothing line called Harvard Yard, but on the Trad forum on Ask Andy About Clothes, a site for Christian Louboutin Sandals sartorially obsessed, the launch collection was deemed "shocking," "vomit inducing," and "wrong on sooooooooooo many levels!" We're talking madras jackets here, folks. Chino shorts. Nothing vomit-inducing about them, really, but for men who call their style Trad and who've spent most of their lives avoiding any whiff of trendiness, Harvard had broken a cardinal rule: You don't mess with Trad.For anyone just joining the conversation, Trad is, in fact, short for traditional, and it's essentially a grown-up way of saying preppy. The term was discounted Christian Louboutin Shoes sale by the Japanese to describe a particular kind of look they saw in American life -- a 1965 book of photographs taken on northeastern college campuses, Take Ivy, is considered holy scripture, with mint copies fetching up to four figures on eBay -- and it caught on in American style circles a few years back. Alexander Kabbaz, the custom-shirt maker who helped create the Trad forum on Ask Andy, describes the style geographically -- "It's Boston, Kennebunkport, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Wimbledon" -- while Mark McNairy, the design director of Trad favorite J. Press, gets a little more specific: "It's oxford-cloth button-down shirts, regimental striped ties, natural-shouldered jackets, flat-front discounted Christian Louboutin Boots, tweeds, and seersuckers."

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