What happened to the pipe and leather sleeve patches that used to be on the tweed coats of academics and would-be academics? Last I saw them was about 1967.
My opinion is that the anti-smoking campaign which first targeted doctors starting in 1964 argued that intelligent people couldn’t possibly smoke cigarettes. Since pipes and cigars were the least addictive of the many forms of tobacco smoking, they were the first to disappear. Academics with pipes and sleeve patches were probably the most visible and were promptly shunned or converted. The whole anti-smoking wave started in Berkeley.
When cigars returned in the 1990’s thanks to Rush Limbaugh, the intellectual triumph of American commercialism, the resurgence of self reliance and macho…there was no room for the defeated academic Leftist wimps. Pipes couldn’t possibly make a come back.