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From The Editor
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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Bots Brothers: Brooks Introduces Innovative AI, Reverse Mentoring
No idea if Brooks plans to retro-innovate and reintroduce the styles and fabrics from the pre-’87 era, but it is taking a bold step forward with artificial intelligence. Multiple news sources reported today on a press conference Brooks gave yesterday, in which it claimed it will be the first to implement an end-to-end AI-powered platform. …
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Ivy Notes S1 E20
If For Some Stupid Reason You Still Think Ballcaps Aren’t Ivy
Ivy Notes S1 E19 – Ch Ch Ch Changes, The Casual/Formal Theory, And Younger People
Ivy Notes S1 E18 Met Two Of My Bucket List People.
Ivy Notes S1 E17
Two Things An Ivy Mind Should Know About
Ivy Is Elegant. Are You?
Slow Your Beefroll – An 11,000 Word Argument For The Sockless
The Jay Butler Loafer – Standing Corrected.
It is MIGHTY hard to not wear socks with loafers and not veer too prep. No knock against prep, but if you are moving the needle in the Ivy direction and you want to wear loafers and no socks, you probably default to the traditional penny loafer, with its unfortunately named beefroll, wide slot for …
Ivy Notes S1 E15 – Cha Cha Cha Cha Changes
Editor’s Note – The Jay Butler Penny Loafer review was supposed to post today, but it has rained here in Bedford for the last maybe 213 days straight, and I couldn’t get the pictures I wanted to show you of them. Today is supposed to be nice, so fingers crossed. It is written, I just …
Ivy Notes S1 E15
Before I forget, Jay Butler is running 15% off the entire site today. Famous for the bit loafer, they do a great penny loafer too, belts, etc. My impression after wearing the bit loafers and the penny loafers is that everything Jay Butler sells is worth more than you pay for it. And the owner …
Duncan Forbes Eats With His Fists (and you should too)
We put this off as long as we could. It is April 15, the day things come due. You have two months before the Memorial Day, shorts, and no excuse for the extra layer you think is hiding things. There are slimming silhouettes (Flouser Sack Suit comment notwithstanding) but that only works in air conditioning. …
The Andover Shop WOCBD – a tailor’s Oxford
The Andover WOCBD is what would happen if a 70 year old master tailor took four years off and went to Columbia in the 50’s, came home and said, “I can do that.” The shirt belongs in your rotation, for sure. At $145 it is in the same conversation as Press and Mercer in terms …
Clothes And The Man by Alan Flusser – A Technical Manual
I went to a Christian undergrad when Gospel Rock was starting, and it was so mediocre. The spirit (small s) was right, but the execution was horrific. All the good rock musicians were making real money. But. Because Christian Rock was a small niche, anything that anybody put out was immediately canonized (I did that …
Ivy Notes S1 E14 – The World’s Oldest Pants Are High Rise and J. Press Has Oxfords On Sale
These are the world’s oldest pants. They are high rise. So all fashion is cyclical. From the article in Ars Technica: With the help of an expert weaver, archaeologists have unraveled the design secrets behind the world’s oldest pants. The 3,000-year-old wool trousers belonged to a man buried between 1000 and 1200 BCE …
The Joseph A Bank WOCDB Review, or, If You’re Gonna Do It Do It Right, or, Affordable Cardboard
You may notice that for this WOCBD review I am not posting pictures of myself. There are two reasons. First, I hate pictures of myself. But more importantly, any random shot you have seen of me in the last few years, including my profile shot on the site, has me in a JAB WOCBD. And …
The Mountain & Sackett Regimental Tie Review
By now, you know that you can preorder the getting-famous Black Watch Regimental Tie here. And save 10%. On one of the best made ties you will ever own. Why best made? I am glad you asked. All M&S ties are made in America. Family owned and operated business, third generation, two guys who love …
You Too Can Own The True Style (G. Bruce Boyer) Tie… Made In America By These Guys
So I review True Style, by G. Bruce Boyer, which is for my money the only book you can start a wardrobe library with. The link one more time to buy it is here. And I wind up finding Mountain & Sackett, two guys running a third generation family business making fantastic ties right here …