If you have a Presidential Memorial Day quote you would like us all to see, please post it in the comments and I will find a photo to go with it and post it between now and Tuesday morning. Tuesday is our review of Mountain & Sackett’s Spring/Summer ties, but until then have a safe …
What’s that cover image? It is the St. Leonard’s Women’s Lacross Team, 1890. Why is it here? Two reasons. First, it is a cool image and lacrosse is Ivy. Four Ivy League schools in the final eight for national title this year. Second, got my butt beat doing a boxing training with a female trainer …
I would like to think that if Roger Angell were a guitar player with a teen daughter, he would wear an earring. He definitely combined worlds. As a word-by-word best-in-class editor whose mother married E.B. White (and didn’t tell him), Angell could have written anything, and he chose to focus on a game. Baseball. Roger …
Next week we will be moving the site, AND signing off on final design changes. Last call for thoughts, contributions, etc. A few ideas still kicking around. First, that you would have to subscribe to comment (not a paid subscription). That would take a few months to implement, just verifying the subscriptions, but the …
Thank you to J. Press for hosting a wonderful evening. A number of great things happened. First, I FINALLY got to meet Laura Arnold in person. Mountain & Sackett, the company that is 3rd generation family owned and makes their silk-on-both-sides ties, has their spring collection out. I am going to review it later …
My friend Chapman is looking for vintage Tretorns, women’s, Size 10. If you know of any, leave it in the comments? I am working on a piece about the WHY of Ivy looking good and wanted to bounce three theories off of you first. If you do some online research, you find, well, …
Thank you, Matthew Reichlin over at the FB Group. I know, you don’t like FB. You should join just for this group. In fact, if you click on the picture… That’s Maria Popova. She has an interview policy I do not understand. I understand asking for donations for your site, the thought has occurred. But …
Is lipstick on a pig Ivy? I refer you to some Ivy reference points. Davis. McQueen. Kennedy. Poitier. Bush. Astaire. O’Rourke. You can wear what they wear. You probably own some of what they wear (except maybe Bush’s latter day socks – which were the apex of elegance but easier to pull off once the …
Well, if pictures are worth a thousand words each. Ok, let me head off a few errant comments before they are posted. (1) Boat shoes are leather. (2) Sneakers are justifiable as exhibits because they tend to be tighter, you tend to walk more …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …