This page, clockwise from top left: Liv Coffey, Phillips Academy Andover (Andover, Massachusetts); Kyle Traub, Kent School Boat Club (Kent, Connecticut); Mike DiSanto, Belmont Hill School (Belmont, Massachusetts).
Jack Carlson is a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University and was a member of the United States rowing team at the 2011 World Championships. F.E. Castleberry is a fashion photographer and publishes the blog Unabashedly Prep.
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passed down from one generation to the next and are almost universally ill-fitting, threadbare, and filthy; Dutch tradition dictates that a blazer may not be washed until its wearer has won the nation’s most prestigious regatta, The Varsity. For American oarsmen and oarswomen, these coveted jackets are usually earned by winning a domestic championship or at the end of an undefeated regular season, when the crew will have blazers made up before heading across the Atlantic to compete at the Henley Royal Regatta. When it hits shelves next year, Rowing Blazers—which will include a foreword by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss of Facebook and Olympic fame—will bring readers into the world of America’s oldest intercollegiate sport. Drawing together sport, fashion, and history, it approaches rowing through its rituals, pageantry, culture, and enduring contributions to British and American style. X
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Opposite page: Al Sinclair, Inverness Rowing Club (Inverness, Scotland).