Courtesy Princeton Class of 1967. Princetoniana Museum use only.
In the beginning was the beer jacket. Just before Houseparties in the spring of 1966, the Class acquired the emblematic jackets that we would wear all through senior year, and far beyond. These off-white housepainter’s jackets came in the same traditional style that Princetonians had been wearing since the beer suit was invented half a century earlier. On the right shoulder the U-Store stenciled a cartoon logo chosen by a Class-wide ballot. Pepper Pettit’s insouciant design won the vote. Over the summer of 1966, many guys used fabric paints to decorate their jackets with individualized artwork. The cartoons on mine, for instance, reflected my thesis on the British Navy and my interest in Marvel Comics.
In the beginning was the beer jacket. Just before Houseparties in the spring of 1966, the Class acquired the emblematic jackets that we would wear all through senior year, and far beyond. These off-white housepainter’s jackets came in the same traditional style that Princetonians had been wearing since the beer suit was invented half a century earlier. On the right shoulder the U-Store stenciled a cartoon logo chosen by a Class-wide ballot. Pepper Pettit’s insouciant design won the vote. Over the summer of 1966, many guys used fabric paints to decorate their jackets with individualized artwork. The cartoons on mine, for instance, reflected my thesis on the British Navy and my interest in Marvel Comics.