Last Weekend For J. Press’ West Village Store
This weekend is your last chance to visit J. Press’ cool West Village shop. And the new store has been given an opening date of October 30!
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Nobby Shop’s Nantucket Island Buckle Belt
Made in the USA by TB Phelps exclusively for Nobby Shop, these belts are made from a handsome oil tanned leather. Black belt comes with nicke buckle, brown belt comes with brass. Belt width measures 1.25″ wide, and don’t forget to size up from your pants waist size. You can shop them right here.
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Tips From Charlie: How to Rock the Roll
When I visited The Andover Shop last month, Charlie Davidson had a handy tip if you’re unsatisfied with the collar roll on your buttondown oxfords. It goes like this: 1) Unbutton the collar. 2) Push it upwards until it achieves an arched shape. 3) Stick the tip of a pencil through the buttonhole and make …
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Quack From The Dead: The Return Of The Duck Head Brand
Fowled Out: Once Again, The Return Of Duck Head
Introducing The Ivy Style Heyday Belt: Taking Orders Through 10/24
Tom Davis To Run MTM Shirt Program At New J. Press Store
Finding The Classics
When The King Of Cool Found The King Of Kings
The Rowing Blazers Pop-Up Shop
M Magazine, 1991: Unbuttoning Brooks Brothers
But Is It Art?
The Museum Of Modern Art here in New York has a new exhibit entitled “Is Fashion Modern?” I went to check it out on Friday, when the museum is free in the late afternoon. The scene was a perfect illustration of the genius behind the law forbidding yelling fire in a crowded building. I deftly …
Papa’s Pennies
Penny loafers: suitable for everyone, including old bearded men who like safari-hunting, sea-fishing, arm-wrestling, bullfighting and hard drinking. Shout-out to longtime comment-leaver “Old School” for submitting this great photo. — CC Addendum: photo info: “Ernest Hemingway at his standing writing desk on the balcony of Bill Davis’s home near Malaga where he wrote The Dangerous Summer.” …
Strap Yourselves In: The Ivy Style Heyday Belt Sneak Peek
Yesterday I met with MKG, my partner on the Ivy Style Club Tie (of which there are still a few left; order info here), to see the samples from our latest project: The Ivy Style Heyday Commemoration Belt (until we come up with a better name). In a handful of motifs, the belt cleverly illustrates …
Eye-Popping
Last month, when we shared G. Bruce Boyer’s piece on cardigan vests for Drake’s, someone remarked that cardigans are fine under sportcoats, but never under blazers. Naturally we followed it up with a series of images from Ralph Lauren that included — what else? — cardigans and blazers. And then the new issue of the …
Im-Press-ive: Much News At J. Press
J. Press is brimming with new energy. For starters, construction is moving along at the new New York location, and we’ll announce the opening date as soon as we hear it. Next, the company has revamped its website, which is now easier to navigate and features a bunch of live humans wearing the clothing, as …
Can They Keep A Secret?
There’s a new book — with a whopping 800 pages — devoted to one of the things Yale is most noted for, besides being the mecca of the Ivy League Look. And that is the secret society, which flourished during the simultaneous heydays of the Ivy and the Cold War. Many a buttondowned Eli went …
Hef vs. WFB: The Playboy Philosophy In The Firing Line
In 1966, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was a guest on William F. Buckley, Jr.’s TV show “The Firing Line.” Here’s how it all went down.
To The Penthouse In The Sky: Hugh Hefner, 1926-2017
Hugh Hefner, who once hosted a TV show called “Playboy’s Penthouse” in which he talked about Ivy League suits before becoming a full-time pajama wearer, has died at the age of 91. He will be remembered for many things, chief among them the association of pipesmoking with promiscuity. Here are Ivy Style’s posts on Hefner …
Back From The Living
I spent the past week in Newport and what a letdown it is to return to the honking hullabaloo of New York. I can see why people find the transition from vacation life to normal life so jarring. Perhaps we’re doing something wrong in life and only get it right one or two weeks a …
Golden Years: New Haven, Home of the Ivy League Look
In 1954, LIFE Magazine declared New Haven the home of the Ivy League Look, writing “Sometimes regarded as more of a club than a clothes shop, J. Press is delighted rather than dismayed that its look is now capturing the country.” Though it is closely associated with Old Blue, J. Press was hardly the only …
Boyer on Langrock, Princeton’s Legendary Campus Shop
When I was an undergraduate at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, there was a wonderful campus shop on Main Street called Tom Bass. It served three colleges and a university (Moravian, Muhlenberg, Lafayette and Lehigh University), and it stocked many of the iconic Ivy League labels: suits by Southwick, buttondowns by Gant and Sero, Pringle …
How Ivy Is It To Talk Ivy?
Not long ago I had a conversation with a friend who is a fellow clothes lover. His style is something I would describe as excessively patterned but casual and nonchalant. He cherishes elements of the Ivy League Look but mixes in pieces of this or that as he fancies. We were discussing whether Ivy Style is …
Brooks Invokes Ivy And Prep
Funny how everything’s turned upside-down, as I argued in the “50th Anniversary Of Slob Nation” essay. Back during the Heyday, Brooks Brothers never had to invoke the terms “Ivy League” or “preppy” — in fact company executives often abhorred the terms — for a very simple reason: Brooks had crafted its signature style long before …
Nobby Shop’s Nantucket Island Buckle Belt
Made in the USA by TB Phelps exclusively for Nobby Shop, these belts are made from a handsome oil tanned leather. Black belt comes with nicke buckle, brown belt comes with brass. Belt width measures 1.25″ wide, and don’t forget to size up from your pants waist size. You can shop them right here.