TGFF: american sportswear classicists

thats what we do. we as in american designers. our over-riding fashion heritage: classic sportswear. Perry Ellis, Bill Blass, Geoffrey Beene, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karen. All iconic american designers, not to say other designers born in american are not american('merican for those readers fluent in appallacian), but american designers as the driving concept of wearability and heritage. as a world power with no blood royalty our political royalty and business tycoons have always swathed themselves in breathless, oft nautical or apres-ski-esque garments that exude vitality and, as ridiculous as this will sound, apple pie and freedom. what is more american than jeans and a plaid shirt with a cardigan jauntily tied around the shoulders at a chiller of a clam bake or back yard bar-b-que? keds and kegs; classic red white and blue good times. which is why friday i got a little giddy for the tried and true classics revamped by our own designers. below for clothes to salute and pledge allegiance to: (3 each L to R: Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein)