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Ivy is a fashion born of a mindset manifested in a lifestyle. There are values attached: dignity, the value and power of thought, ethics, hard work, aesthetics, appreciation of all things classic, and the dogged pursuit of excellence. While Ivy evolves (I haven’t worn socks since Easter) the values don’t. If you are a …
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The Other Brooks
Our last post on the Brooks exhibit at Grand Central inspired this submission from a reader. Like this post and want more like it, more often? Help keep Ivy Style going for another decade. * * * If one looks closely at the crest on the historic blazer in the recent Brooks Brothers exhibit, it …
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J. Press Event & A Store Made From A Battleship.
Slow Your Beefroll – An 11,000 Word Argument For The Sockless
G. Bruce Boyer – Johnny Hartman: The Balladeer
FDR Degage
Jazz Goes to College: Jazz and Ivy Style at Mid-Century
J. Press Spring 2022 Book & Einstein’s Block Theory
Presidential Valets
A Tale Of Two Blazers
Mr. Jennings, The Laundress, and Waiter There’s A Fly On My Lapel
Yesterday Sarah from Fewer And Better told us about The Laundress which is a line of cleaning products. They have a decent blog over there too covering how to care for your clothes. Worth a spin. Their products got a few endorsements here. I’ve never tried, but Sarah has and I trust her. I got …
What’s Dry Cleaning?
In Pompeii around 79 somebody urinated, somebody else took the ammonia out, and dry cleaning was born. Why? Because they were wearing a lot of wool (seems like a heavy fabric to me when you are beneath a volcano) and wool shrinks in water. Imagine you take a week or whatever to weave your Pompeiian …
You Can Go Home Again. Press Gets Back To New Haven.
J. Press is going back to its alma mater. I did the same thing. My undergrad was out in Iowa where there was not a lot of Ivy going on, but the Prep scene was a real, real thing. Polo shirt under polo shirt, deck shoes, popped collars – it was a church school, and …
The Writing On The Wall
Historic Image Lovers – here’s your wheelhouse. Duck Head is searching for “vintage “throwback” photos with folks sporting Duck Head or even just the Duck Head look (khakis, Oxford shirt, loafers, etc.) around the time of the late 70s through the 80s.” If Duck Head uses your picture, YOU get to be an Ivy model …
Ivy Notes S1 E4 – G. Bruce Boyer Corrects Me, A Brief History Of Abercrombie & Fitch, and The Great Alpacuna Debate
Editor’s Note: In the Facebook Group, we are treated to fantastic articles by the only purveyor we allow to advertise to the group, James Taylor of Waterhollow Tweed. He recently gave us permission to reprint two such pieces. Let’s have a smidge of retail history–the “Abercrombie & Fitch” that exists today is NOT …
Heavy Duty Ivy and.. well…
Here’s the article. It is from the Robb Report, by a Mr. Eric Twardzik, who can write. It is worth the read. My objections to the article have nothing at all to do with Mr. Twardzic’s take, rather they have to do with Mr. Snyder’s take. In the first paragraph, Mr. Twardzik inadvertently points out …
Ivy Notes S1E3
I am struggling with this myself. With Gramercy. Last night a member of the FB group posted a picture of Mr. Andre here, who has, on his 12th birthday, started experimenting. With Ivy clothes. As I understand it there was a journey through sweatpants here. But now we have arrived home. I cannot say the …
Anthony Kalamut Is A Funny Guy.
This is not his profile, that is coming. But I will say this. 3 year Ivy Style member (over that the FB Group) Anthony Kalamut find the interesting stuff, and starts interesting conversations. His profile is coming (my fault, I have to do the interview) but my friend Anthony Kalamut is a survivor, a …
Pleats, Buttons and 3 Roll 2 – From Resident Ivy Historian Marc Chevalier
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Chevalier has posted a whole collection of these essays on the Facebook Group, as well as providing a lot of keen insight. He’s invaluable. – JB IVY STYLE AND PLEATED TROUSERS: WHY THE DISCORD? For at least as long as Ivy has been categorized as a style, it has been …
Ok, we were right. Now what?
The Wall Street Journal has piled on and it is safe to say now that we can stop posting articles about the comeback of “formal style” and just be grateful that the pendulum swung our way. Here’s their article, if you care to read it. Articles by yours truly and others to the contrary, …