This isn't university apparel: this is the Ivy League as metaphor. Harvard Yard is about turning the university's hard-earned but ephemeral reputation into a more useful kind of coin — the licensing deal, though of unknown value, lasts 10 years, covers the entire globe, and also gives permission for women's and children's apparel collections. Kit Walsh, an executive at the Collegiate Licensing Company, says "The idea was to create a line of clothing where Harvard represented not just a university, but a style, too."

And what a style it is.

We think this guy's definitely majoring in Advanced Mud Sculpture. The floral shirt speaks to a certain subversive aesthetic/isation of the American heterosexual male experience, but the rolled up sleeves say, "Baby, let's work this clay together."

This guy, on the other hand, is clearly majoring in Old World Inferiority Complex Studies. Notice the striped blazer, an homage to the classic English boating jacket, and the attempt at keeping it cas' in white plimsolls. A not unusual reaction to feelings of geographic insecurity among the wealthiest classes.

Here, a Harvardite majoring in Cool Juice. Run — don't walk! — to class, Steve Urkel. You'll transform into Stefan Urquelle one day.

This guy's majoring in Young Republicanism with a minor in Sockless Living — Avoiding Blisters. Roger Stone dreams of taking him shopping for a real suit.

And here lurks the soulful Studio Art/Independent Studies major. Look at him gaze into the middle distance as he contemplates with exquisite melancholy how everyone around him is like totally a late-capitalist consumer clone, man, while his forebrain wonders if perhaps he can justify charging another ribbon belt this month.

Harvard Yard apparel will retail for $165-$495, and will be available in stores next spring.

Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard [Vanity Fair]
Harvard University Launches Men's Collection [WWD]

The foundation of Aliza's outfit is, naturally, built upon the shopping mecca of aspiring hipster poseurs everywhere: American Apparel. Below, the leggings, scoop-neck leotard and black hoody.

(Unisex flex fleece zip hoody, $40; cotton spandex jersey legging, $26; jersey short sleeve t-shirt leotard, $28.)

And her boots? White fringe stylings are something that could only be found at a place called the Boot Barn.

(Oak Tree Farm "Oasis" fringe boot, $89.99)

And don't forget the hair! This Beverly Johnson wig in Shade 4 ought to do the trick.

(H-214 by Beverly Johnson wig, $45.90)

But to really encapsulate Aliza-style, you've gotta rock the baggy leopard-print short. Where to go? The men's underwear section of WildFree, naturally.

(Wild Free men's lingerie silk leopard-print boxer shorts, $24)

Related: Shvarts Explains Her 'Repeated Self-Induced Miscarriages [Yale Daily News]

The one great difference between them seemed to be in their experience of abstinence. Fredell was unaware of that gap. Whenever sexual urges struck, she told me, she was able to manage them by going on a long run and assumed that everyone should be able to do the same. "The biological drive can be overcome," she said. "It's not like it reaches a peak, and you have to go out and have sex."

"And you don't go down the street thinking you'd like to have sex with him, him, him and him?" I asked.

"No!" she said, abruptly. "Is that what men do?"

It seemed a good time to talk with her about what else Keliher had told me. He described the act he has never experienced as something "breathtakingly powerful" that "lights all of your body on fire." He spoke of his lust as "this untamed beast."

Fredell was incredulous: "Leo said that?"

He told me that he struggles constantly against "physical lustful temptation" — that he can be aroused just by a woman's touch, by even a look at a woman or at a photo or sometimes by "thoughts that just come out of the blue — basically pornography in my head." They come to him when he's merely walking around campus, or even when he's alone in the library — "like a fly buzzing around."

To the matter of masturbation, he said, "This was really tough for me . . . because when you have a habit that's so deeply ingrained, it's hard to stop."

Fredell, when asked about masturbation, just said, "Oh, God, no!"

Keliher quoted to me what an abstinence speaker said — that the real meaning of masculinity is "being able to deny yourself for the sake of the woman." "To have that kind of self-control is really what it means to be a man," Keliher had told me. When he finds himself aroused these days, he endures it and waits for it to pass. In this way, he said he has "matured out of that more infantile need for a woman into a recognition of self-sufficiency." But some women, Keliher granted, continue to give him trouble.
One of these is a freshman — "a very gentle, caring soul," he said, who "works with little kids and stuff." Keliher can't help thinking about her glossy hair and beautiful skin.

Another appears to be Janie Fredell. Keliher smiled and said he was "a little bit" attracted to her — "in very superficial ways," he added. "It's something we laugh about — if we dated."

But Fredell did not laugh. "No!" she erupted, and with increasing volume, "No! No! No! I can't emphasize enough that there is nothing between me and Leo! It's just that we're not compatible in that regard."

Or actually, that is a lie, taking yourself too seriously is up there with "presumptuousness" when it comes to achieving things I guess, so what do I know; I'm still with Lena, for whatever it's worth.

Students Of Virginity [NY Times]

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