Monday, August 1, 2011

A clothes-minded look at the evolution of the progvest

This sartorial tutorial begins with...

Jon Anderson (c) & Tony Kaye (r)
displaying their primordial progvests
in the late sixties.


 The buttoned-down seventies progvest; he could
Fly From Here with that collar. (& puffy shirt)


I think this is a progvest... could be a seventies jumpsuit... 
looking very proud of those prog action figures!


Colors more subtle and styling more formal,
but still... a total progvest for the eighties.


By the nineties, the casual progvest
makes a comeback, thanks to Jon.


Yes changes vocalists in 2008, but Benoit maintains
continuity with this progvest. (& puffy shirt)


Green and recycled for 2010, the buttoned-down
progvest makes a comeback, thanks to Benoit.


On the Styx/Yes tour in 2011,
Benoit loses a bet with Tommy Shaw
and has to wear this progvest onstage.
(Sadly, no prog action figures anymore.)