Rare as a drunken basso profundo “boola boola”. Metallic blue Corvette convertible was the ne plus ultra transport of choice. Old Dutch Root Beer & Coca-Cola? Gimme a break! Sweat dripping into a tepid PBR can in a dimly lit juke joint was stereotypical. (Dirty Dancing was partially filmed at NC’s Lake Lure, posing as some Borscht Belt resort.) The movie Dirty Dancing and Shag culture share Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs’ “Stay”. ![]() Ivy bound types were few on the ground in said Suthun subculture – those kids wern’t grinds or legacy Connecticut WASPS. Starring Matthew Lillard, Michael Goorjian and Annabeth Gish. Long sleeve Ban-Lon shirts with Smedleyish collars top-buttoned were a shagger’s quirk.įew t-shirts – no skating waitpersons. the film offers a burlesque Baedeker of the mid-80s youth scene in Squaresville. J&M Tassels – Aldens were a post law school pseudosophistication. Engine-turned monogram buckles were not rare. Long sleeve OCBD & Madras shirts, with Bermuda shorts, were tucked and cinched with crocodilia even in mid-summer Ocean Drive Beach, SC – if you were collegiate of mind, if not age. Haven’t seen the movie but there are reportedly two different DVD soundtrack versions – one more authentically Carolina’s beach R&B. Sockless WeeJuns supposedly were a Chapel Hill ’50s innovation. The movie’s soundtrack draws on that carefully edited mixture of R&B and doo-wop known as Beach Music. But whereas “Dirty Dancing” features a post-’60s inversion of values in which the Yale-bound med student is the villain, while the leather-clad greaser is the hero, the leading man in “Shag” is a bit of a n’er-do-well, but still bound for Yale, making him bad boy and husband material all in one. With its Southern setting, “Shag” is more conservative than the New York-set “Dirty Dancing,” which was made two years earlier and also set in 1963. ![]() There’s also Bridget Fonda, whose figure will not escape your notice. “Shag” stars Annabeth Gish, who’s previously appeared on Ivy-Style, and Phoebe Cates, dream girl of any boy who came of age in the ’80s. ![]() Actress Annabeth Gish arrives at the FX's 'The Bridge' Season 2 Premiere at Pacific Design Center on Jin West Hollywood, California. Not to mention Weejuns, the perfect shoe for shaggin’ with a waitress on roller skates, as the guy in the yellow button-down does in the screenshot above. Actors Annabeth Gish and Diane Kruger attend the after party for the season premiere of FX's 'The Bridge' at the Pacific Design Center on July 7. Made in 1989 and set in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 1963, “ Shag” shows guys staying cool in the humid Southern summer dressed in such trad fare as short-sleeved madras shirts, t-shirts, canvas sneakers, chinos and oxfords. Stephen Lewis for Exclusive Artists Management using Hot Tools and Kevin Murphy. This begs the question: Did the look originate on Yankee campuses, or did the practice originate in the South, with Southern students taking the look North with them when they headed off to college? Photographed by William Callan for TheWrap. “Take Ivy” is full of students wearing shorts, untucked oxfords and Weejuns without socks.
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