Article: Mr. America: from rugby shirts to southwestern-motif sweaters and prairie skirts, Ralph Lauren has taken the canon of traditional all-American clothing and made it his own.

Ralph Lauren Collection's black wool and faux-leopard coat, maroon silk velvet vest and black wool pants, all 1994; white cotton shirt, at select Ralph Lauren stores, ralphlauren.com. Unless otherwise noted, all clothes from Ralph Lauren Collection, and all accessories from Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Blue Label and RLX.

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[this page] Wool jacket, 1989 cotton shirt, 1977, and cotton skirt. 1982; Ralph Lauren Blue Label's cotton henley, at select Ralph Lauren stores, ralphlauren.com Frye boots.

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[opposite] Multicolored wool jacket, 1990.

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Multicolored wool robe, 1990

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