For your autumn touch-football games, or your holiday shopping for the man who has everything (which may very well be you), consider a traditional football wrapped in Harris Tweed. If ever there was a way to reconcile clotheshorse and jock, this is it.
I spied it a couple of weeks ago at the opening for The Lodge‘s new retail store in New York’s East Village. The shop carries a stylish array of men’s accessories, with everything made in the US.
Priced at $175, the football is made by Leather Head, which bills itself “The Official Football Of Collegiate Tailgating.” Enough said. — CC
Christian,
You have achieved what I believed to be the impossible: Never did I think that anyone could get me interested in anything related to football. Now, if you can find a tweed covered sax, you might even get me interested in jazz.
My pleasure.
Pretty sure I could find you a tweed-covered man playing a sax, if that’s close enough.
In the interest of tweed + music, we should all remember the “Fender Tweed” line of amplifiers from the 1960’s that I’m pretty sure are still quite sought-after today!
Thanks to Wiki:
“The amplifiers are named for the cloth covering, which consists of varnished cotton twill, incorrectly called tweed because of its feel and appearance.”
That. Is. Outstanding.
Nerf
Great Football!
@ Curmudgeon
Wearing Ivy threads without digging modern jazz? That’s inconceivable.
In England, at least.
@Bags’ Groove
“Threads”?
Was that word ever in the Ivy lexicon?
Infra dig in my book.
@Curmudgeon
Are you one of the people who holds that only residents of Schenectady are allowed to use synecdoche?
@ Curmudgeon
Yeah man, it’s on page 47 of the Dig Ivy book, right alongside the cat blowin’ the herringbone sax!
@ Curmudgeon
Oops, wrong page. It’s the next one, where Sinatra, resplendent in his Ivy threads, is reminding someone not to lay hand on them.
“My God, its full of stars” – 2001: A Space Odyssey